Are services like Lemmy, Mastodon or PeerTube KYC’d in the UK?
Sorry to be a doomer, but if so, then the Fediverse has failed and we should just move on with a decentralized web that uses decentralized backends: Nostr, Odysee/LBRY, etc.
Maybe the threat model of the Fediverse was incomplete. It isn’t just Big Tech who is threat, but also regulation by Big Government.
what makes you think that they won’t take action against the fediverse and simply prosecute the use and hosting… if the whole thing is still legally applied to proxies, vpn’s etc would you do that how? this is now being completely enforced and far worse than what china is doing. chat control etc will also come
If you’re running an instance that isn’t courting UK users outside the UK, my reading of the law is that it wouldn’t apply in the first place.
There are already instances hosted in countries that don’t play ball with the UK
I suppose everyone would hear to tor or another anonymous network then.