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Is the Fediverse KYC'd in the UK with the new law? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago by gasull@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

KYC = know your customer

For everyone else but knowing

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month 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.