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.

  • Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml
    7·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • IceFoxX@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      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

      • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
        3·
        2 days ago

        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.

        • IceFoxX@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          europe and amerika will follow. So Europe attacks DNS resolver etc at the moment. proxys,vpns etc too. so how you wanna reach them later if blocked?