As this project appears to be fairly unknown in the fediverse still, I'd like to use this opportunity to advertise Flohmarkt. This Fediverse equivalent of Facebook Marketplace already has some instances up and running - see here: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances

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[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

I am super curious how does it stack against DAC7 European Directive 2021/514 from 22 march 2021.

The European law says that such sites must provide a list of users and sales

[–] grindhold@23.social 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

@Emmie @Temperche
IANAL but: researching this topic was indeed a task during the first year of the project. The German implementation of DAC7 (the PStTG) includes an exception for digital black boards like flohmarkt. The criterion is that there is no formal form of forming a contact on the platform itself. Here's the official statement (see 1.1) https://www.bzst.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Digitale/_Plattformbetreiber/FAQ/PStTG.pdf?%5C%5C_blob=publicationFile&v=3

bonus: you'll will find many more hillariously unpronouncable words in this document.

Does your EU-country has exceptions?

[–] grindhold@23.social 1 points 14 hours ago

@Emmie @Temperche might need to add that the exception is implicit. we've always argued that way before we knew this FAQ. until it came to our attention we just weren't sure because, well, we're no lawyers, duh :)

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