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Are you, by any means, aware of what Lemmy (and Fediverse platforms) is (are)?
I get it, but it's more akin to a message board than Facebook
To us, perhaps.
To the kind of people who'd have the "power" to enforce the kind of prohibition you're advocating for, the lawmakers and bureaucrats from regulatory agencies, most of them (if not all of them) can't even tell where's the "any" key the computer is asking them to press ("press any key to continue"), so you can only imagine them knowing what an ActivityPub is (maybe they'll see the "pub" at the end and think "hey, kids shouldn't be allowed in a pub").
"But the leopards wont eat my face"
Hate to break it to you but in the countries where they are restricting it they are doing so to Youtube and Reddit and many other places. Anywhere the plebs can talk to each other.
These laws make no such distinction
Why would a message board not be considered social media?