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I would'n agree that these attempts were completely failed. Like the whole free software world works, they created better and better tools that at some point could have become good enough to actually protect one's privacy and at a later point could have become usable by non-hackers as well.

Now at the time when it's easy as never before for every (well, not every every but you get my point) schoolboy/girl to create their own standalone page with comments, own e-mail server and whatever they want, they will probably not be able to do so, without risking being drowned by an Abmahnungswelle. Not to say that all decentralized social networks projects are at risk for approximately the same reason.

One might hope that in the future we'll have a reproducible technology for creating GDPR-proof websites and the world will be a happy place again, but solving legal issues with code is a notoriously difficult problem. Legislative acts are not code, and something as vague as GDPR is not even a spec.