I seem to remember only <7 instances allowing porn posts when I joined up. As a practical matter, I don’t remember the last time I saw porn posted from any instance besides lemmynsfw.com
TL;DR: Porn on Lemmy is as centralized and easilly squashed by regulation as anywhere else.
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If this law says in place and is actually enforced all fediverse instances will need to start verifying age for UK users too.
Yes, the federated model might make it somewhat harder for governments to enforce these kinds of laws. Until those governments catch up. 🙁
John Perry Barlow was right: https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
balkanization of all types always seems to be the answer to these sorts of dystopian laws and i hope that it happens despite evidence contrary.
Yes…we should balkanize the UK and US.
I seem to remember only <7 instances allowing porn posts when I joined up. As a practical matter, I don’t remember the last time I saw porn posted from any instance besides lemmynsfw.com
TL;DR: Porn on Lemmy is as centralized and easilly squashed by regulation as anywhere else.
Yup, we have.