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)

  • CombatWombat@feddit.onlineEnglish
    12·
    11 days ago

    Generally speaking, it’s best to avoid using the default instance. The fediverse works best when there are many, smaller instances, instead of one large instance and a few smaller one orbiting it. We should try to avoid the problems we see with the centralization around mastodon.social and lemmy.world happening to piefed as well, if we can.

    • Serinus@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 days ago

      Why?

      To me it’s the option that’s important. Doesn’t mean you’re obligated to use it preemptively.