Using terms like ‘u’, ‘ur’, etc when writing. No one charges by the letter, it’s simply lazy.

Sure, but a VPN solves that handily. It’s not really a big deal.

It’s not even a correct point. Deleting your Lemmy account will actually delete all your data. Also, there was a change put through two days ago I think to have individual deleted comments purged after 30 days. Of course, both these features depend on other federated servers to behave properly and honour those requests.

The EU may claim GDPR applies to all data of EU citizens no matter where in the world it is stored, but if the entity storing that data does zero business in the EU, there isn’t much that can be done to enforce that law. Its the same as US law firms thinking their DMCA claims apply in other countries, etc.

Federated Lemmy instances operating in non-EU nations with no business/holdings/etc in the EU, are under zero obligation to recognise GDPR requirements unless otherwise required somehow to do so by their own national law (say a treaty agreement or the like).

The EU can no more demand or enforce global adherence to their data laws than the US can.

Certain forums place bounties on a book, and when someone uploads it they collect that bounty. It’s a sort of internal points system for that forum. So someone will put up a bounty post, other interested users will also pledge, someone will obtain and upload the book to a file hosting site, and collect the bounty.

Some titles at least one person will have to buy. Other don’t even cost anything, as it is trivial to rip a Kindle Unlimited book if you know what you’re doing.