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Nightmare on Lemmy Street (A Fediverse GDPR Horror Story) - Michael Altfield's Tech Blog
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Well, the bare minimum you need to do, is refuse traffic from the EU then. The devs don't want to do that, but they also don't want to implement the changes which is illegal and carried huge fines (yes, they can fine you in the US too)
The "huge fines" are proportional to the revenue of the company and there are plenty of legal steps that need to be taken before someone with a big stick gets involved.
Also, this is not an issue for the developers, but for the admins.
The fines are only proportional for big corporations. Organizations without revenue can still be fined:
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/
In this case, the processing of data hinges upon the data subject’s consent, which is detailed in article 7.
Imagine a car manufacturer building cars without brakes and then saying ‘This isn’t a problem for the engineers, but for the retailers’. Of course the developers can’t be sued for this. But that’s not the point! The point is that this bug or missing feature or whatever you want to call it jeopardizes the admins upon which this whole ecosystem hinges. I can’t believe that that’s in the devs’ best interests.