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I don't think that it is, even for EU instances, in that the GDPR regulates businesses, so it's out-of-scope for the GDPR.
In theory, I suppose that GDPR implications might come up if someone starts selling commercial Threadiverse access at some point, though.
There might be some interesting questions providing Usenet or maybe XMPP, though, as there are commercial providers of those services, and they are federated and transfer data all over the world.
kagis
Hmm. This has some people talking about it for XMPP. At least this guy's first pass is that it might apply:
https://mail.jabber.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/F5EGKYVPD42PPHOW72VBOS5E6OZTA22M/
The GDPR regulates everything and everyone, including individuals and non-profits. See Article 2. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679
For example: If you keep a personal journal and write about your friends and acquaintances, that's out of scope. [ETA: As long as the journal is private. When it's shared outside the household, it is in scope and probably a violation.] But when the Jehovah's Witnesses go door to door and make notes who opens etc, that's in scope. [ETA: And has been ruled a violation by the ECJ.]