Thanks for the response. If I might ask, are you prepared to put something in place if it required modifications to Lemmy code, an additional piece of software to host, or paying another company to do it on your behalf?
Apologies for the directness, not insinuating you wouldn’t do whatever’s needed to comply out of malice or laziness or anything like that. I remember you mentioning in the past that you’re time poor, so I’m just trying to mentally prepare for whatever’s going to happen.
Also, if you can’t come to a solution, or it’d be too intense to implement, or cost too much to maintain or whatever, could you commit to us as much of a heads up as possible? I’ve seen a few Lemmy instances shut down with minimal notice (albeit, much smaller than AZ). If it comes to that, it would be really good to have time to organise ourselves and figure out where we’re headed next (this is particularly in the context of the Melbourne daily threads, but does also apply to a lesser extent elsewhere across the instance)
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
One thought I had was of trying to get an exemption for us. It’s a stretch, but if we all sent letters to our MPs and the relevant Minister explaining what we are and why we’re not really the intended audience (very small. Mostly adults anyway. Doesn’t use an algorithm designed to keep people addicted because it’s an open source community project.), just maybe we could get the Minister to declare an exemption for aussie.zone. It’s an outside chance, but possible—especially if anyone happens to be friendly with some Government MPs already. (I, unfortunately, am not…unless the next election results in a shock Greens majority 😅)
The only downside I can see of this approach is that it might put us “on the radar” of the government in some sense, though what that would mean in practice is probably nothing, it could be a concern to think about. I would only send such a letter of you wanted that kind of campaign.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Yeah I think any exception for us just brings attention to us which is a double edged sword. More users more members etc more scrutiny unfortunately though
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Partly I think that will depend on whether exceptions are made publicly available via a list of something. (Certainly, it’ll be possible to get them via an RTI, but that’s not nearly the same exposure.) And also partly on how many exceptions are given. If we were one of 4 exceptions that would be very different from if we were one of 400.