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Any info on when the app will become available outside the US?

edit: not sure why I‘m getting downvoted, didn’t realize it was mostly about me being in Europe



It is available outside the US, in most regions other than the EU (which is due to concerns about violating the DMA afaik)


How does it violate the Digital Markets Act?


EU customer data must be stored and served within the EU, and that guarantee can't be made with a federated service.


Sounds like utter bullshit that you just made up. PS, Mastodon is German.


Wrong law though.

The GDPR requires data protection and it mostly goes against Metas business interests to do so.

It's not required to store or process date in Europe (im quite sure "serving" is not a problem as Mastodon instances can legally operated here).

And anyway Meta has plenty of European resources.

For now. If it's a success it'll come in due time.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-05/meta-won-...

"Meta is waiting for more guidance around the Digital Markets Act, new EU competition rules that govern how large online platforms use their market power, a person familiar with the matter said, "

DMA is about large companies and not the tiny mastodon instances.


I'm already using it outside of US (Hong Kong)




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