Activities / How software is offered
Operates a social platform
operates_social_platform
Your app lets users create accounts, post content, and interact with each other's posts in a shared public or semi-public space.
- scope deployment
- in the registry since 1.0
- 458 laws in 125 jurisdictions name it
What triggers it
The lint's definition. It runs a service where users post content that other users see, or find and connect with each other.
This covers a photo-sharing network, a video-sharing site users upload to, and a discussion forum with public profiles.
What does not
A single-player app with no user-to-user posting does not count, even if users can leave a comment for your staff to read.
Often confused with Reuses other publishers' content and Serves under-18s.
The law it brings into scope
The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of . The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.
Counterparties that usually come with it
- a content-moderation vendor
- a hosting provider for what users upload
A component that cannot run as documented without one of these names
it in its ACTIVITIES.md under talks_to, with
required: true. That party's jurisdiction then joins the
run of every product that uses the component, and the finding says
why it is there. A default the deployer can change is asked about,
never added. Talking to a party never makes a product that party.
In a declaration
This activity is a property of how software is offered, so only an
application or a service declares it, and only as
performs.
For an application
History
In the registry since version 1.0, .
In the glossary: Operates a social platform.
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