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Comment on Not something urgent, but the Aussie parliament passed new laws yesterday and it could impact Lemmy.world (in a year)

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TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

By those definitions any newspaper website with comments is social media. The sole purpose (or main purpose) of a Lemmy instance is to aggregate links, the comments are secondary (just like in newspaper websites). The definition is too vague and if you apply it to the letter it would include 99% of websites, even porn websites have comments these days.

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Kelly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

The sole purpose (or main purpose) of a Lemmy instance is to aggregate links

We call them “link posts” and I think they may qualify as posts under this broad definition.

For the purposes of this Act, material is posted on a social media service, relevant electronic service or designated internet service by an end - user if the end - user causes the material to be accessible to, or delivered to, one or more other end - users using the service.

www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/…/s11.html

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chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

The definition is too vague and if you apply it to the letter it would include 99% of websites

I think that is their intention

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