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.
Afaik it’s just .zip because the admin decided to have a meltdown instead of read the legislation, nothing else seems to have been affected.