States don’t have any standing to enforce a Lemmy instance unless it primarily does business in their state. Since PH does take money from residents of those states then they could theoretically be punished somehow.

As long as your content isn’t hosted in that state and you don’t take payments from that state then there’s no mechanism for them to do anything to a random website.

What are they going to do, try to enforce a state law on some instance owner that lives in the eu? Come over and try bitch!