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.
My understanding is that a handful of instances on the fediverse have geo-IP blocked the UK rather than open themselves to legal trouble.
I would guess that the others are either operated outside of anywhere that the UK can enforce its rules, not beholden to the new rules (I believe I read that there is a minimum user count for them to actually apply), or are just winging it.
I’d be shocked if more than maybe 4 instances of systems on the fediverse even had the resources to try to comply with this.
Big Tech IS big government. It’s the same, the difference is just that one has a profit model and that another in some countries can be elected.
And in some, both are the same.
Uk here.
Mastodon and Pixelfed are working fine.
The nice thing about the fediverse being open source is that if an instance or the developers required this the solution work be to fork. I predict an new migration to lemmy if reddit starts requiring ID.
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
I suppose everyone would hear to tor or another anonymous network then.
InviZible Pro The best thing is to look at the app yourself. To establish the connection you can choose between proxy,vpn,root mode. Otherwise, after opening the app, select the services and start them. You can also make all kinds of settings for the respective module.
