Thread concept: List of sites about to block the UK over the Online Safety Act - eviltoast

I know some small UK-based forums have shut down (such as the hamster forums) and a Lemmy server has cut off the uk (because the owner lives in the UK, despite hosting it elsewhere) but what sites have announced plans to geoblock the UK?

I see that Civitai is. Anyone else?

  • Patch@feddit.uk
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    10 days ago

    Do we have site of any Lemmy instances that defederate from us? It’ll be interesting to see if many do.

    Not that that’s a solution, as UK users can join any Lemmy instance (and non-UK users can join feddit.uk), but I can see some going for it as a quick fix.

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      10 days ago

      Do we have site of any Lemmy instances that defederate from us? It’ll be interesting to see if many do.

      They wouldn’t need to do that. If they’re not in the UK, they wouldn’t need to do anything. They’re too small and outside Ofcom’s power.

      Lemmy.zip already geoblocked the UK because even though its hosted from Finland, a UK guy runs it. So he is in theory liable.

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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      Lemmy.zip blocks UK users but I don’t see why they would bother to defederate with instances based off it.

      If anything it should mean lemmy is a potential way to resist this sort of thing, as long as some instances are directly accessible in the UK then anything they federate with would also be accessible through it.

    • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.uk
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      10 days ago

      Do we have site of any Lemmy instances that defederate from us? It’ll be interesting to see if many do.

      Why would they? They’re only legally liable for their own users, not ours.

      • Skavau@piefed.socialOP
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        10 days ago

        I can imagine Ofcoms head exploding at the concept of the Fediverse.

        “What’s a Lemmy?”