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.

  • tofu
    19·
    1 day ago

    KYC = know your customer

    For everyone else but knowing

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      5·
      1 day ago

      Nope the sentence still doesn’t make sense.

      Is this about the government requiring ID in order to view pornography because, a, it only applies to pornography websites which Lemmy isn’t, and b, doesn’t work anyway.

      • b00g13@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        15 hours ago

        ysk, it’s not just pornography, it’s vague and targets “legal content harmful to children”. It’s up to content provider or facilitator to decide how broad it’ll be and for the UK courts to test the scope.