Hexbear lost its domain and went offline

Lisan al Gaib!

and I don’t hold any data on them

This here is the relevant question imo. Could the federation put relevant remote users’ data onto your server? Well, not any user-specific info like the mail adress they signed up with etc. But could a judge rule some specific public post to be relevant personal data? I am not sure.

The problem remains that the second lemmy.world allows content created by someone underage to federate onto their server, they probably have some legal responsibility regarding that data. And if there is personal information in there, it gets tricky pretty fast in some jurisdictions.

LW don’t want legal problems, that’s literally all there is to this.

Whether LW can enforce their ToS on remote users is a different question, and even if the answer to that is “no” then they could still include that clause in every single LW community’s rules.

Lemmy development can be somewhat slow due to having only three developers in the core team, but they are aware of people wanting custom feed/community options