Their ToS mentions the laws of New Zealand, while their privacy policy includes GDPR. Are the servers hosted in NZ, the EU, or somewhere else?

Also, is there any reason not to use the piefed.social instance (over other Piefed instances)? I’m interested in trying out Piefed, and use it in conjunction with Lemmy

edit: It looks like it’s hosted in Australia, and rimu (who operates the instance) is from New Zealand. Mention of GDPR does not mean it’s hosted in the EU.

Also, it looks like it might be better to use a different instance regardless of where piefed.social is hosted, for decentralisation (like piefed.ca and piefed.blahaj.zone, which are Canadian, piefed.nz, which is hosted in NZ, or nord.pub and retrofed.com, both German)

I am moving to Piefed at scallisto@retrofed.com (https://retrofed.com/u/scallisto)

  • luokaton@lemmy.zip
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    9 days ago

    GDPR applies when the user is in EU, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the server is. Many websites are GDPR-compliant without being hosted in the EU.

    The domain’s DNS point to an Australian IP.

    The “about” page gives contact@piefed.social as a contact method – maybe just ask them directly?