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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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[โ€“] gasull@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mastodon/Lemmy instances can be forced to KYC you. So you would have to jump into hoops and move from instance to instance. It will be like torrent sites or darknet markets, that come and go.

Yes, you can self-host, and should, but most people don't want to be a sysadmin, and it isn't easy. Ideally you should be able to participate in a self-sovereign way without being a sysadmin. Just like:

  • you can torrent something without being a sysadmin
  • you can self-custody your cryptocurrency without being a sysadmin
  • you can chat on SimpleX or Session and never be deplatformed without being a sysadmin
  • you can use Nostr and never be deplatformed without being a sysadmin
[โ€“] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

There used to be p2p clients like napster. This can always come back