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Thread concept: List of sites about to block the UK over the Online Safety Act (piefed.social)

submitted 1 week ago by Skavau@piefed.social to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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I know some small UK-based forums have shut down (such as the hamster forums) and a Lemmy server has cut off the uk (because the owner lives in the UK, despite hosting it elsewhere) but what sites have announced plans to geoblock the UK?

I see that Civitai is. Anyone else?

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I expect Reddit will in the long run. I can't see the prove your ID route being worth the cost.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Well currently you can just use a picture of ID from google or AI/blender generated selfies. So I guess the question is will the current level of moderation work or not, is it good enough to make it look like they are trying while clearly doing the absolute bare minimum?

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This already exist: https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_memoriam/

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

Those are UK sites that shut down though?

I mean are there are any new announcements

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Do we have site of any Lemmy instances that defederate from us? It'll be interesting to see if many do.

Not that that's a solution, as UK users can join any Lemmy instance (and non-UK users can join feddit.uk), but I can see some going for it as a quick fix.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

Do we have site of any Lemmy instances that defederate from us? It'll be interesting to see if many do.

They wouldn't need to do that. If they're not in the UK, they wouldn't need to do anything. They're too small and outside Ofcom's power.

Lemmy.zip already geoblocked the UK because even though its hosted from Finland, a UK guy runs it. So he is in theory liable.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Lemmy.zip blocks UK users but I don't see why they would bother to defederate with instances based off it.

If anything it should mean lemmy is a potential way to resist this sort of thing, as long as some instances are directly accessible in the UK then anything they federate with would also be accessible through it.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do we have site of any Lemmy instances that defederate from us? It’ll be interesting to see if many do.

Why would they? They're only legally liable for their own users, not ours.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

I can imagine Ofcoms head exploding at the concept of the Fediverse.

"What's a Lemmy?"