If you run a small online community in the UK (or with significant UK users), I spent most of yesterday reading hundreds of pages of Online Safety Act guidance and summarised it:
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If you run a small online community in the UK (or with significant UK users), I spent most of yesterday reading hundreds of pages of Online Safety Act guidance and summarised it:
https://russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/online-safety-act-guide/
There's definitely stuff you have to do if you want to comply with this law...
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The Telegraph has picked this up (with quotes from @dee
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@russss what was written Vs the completeness and soundbites of what I said... Huge gap.
But hey, it's not a terrible piece and I'm very happy they didn't mention my gender once
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@russss oh and a piece in the New Scientist is also coming. They would like to hear from other sites who are choosing to shutter
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@dee yeah, the New Scientist journo emailed me and I sent him some quotes.
I've run across a handful of tiny forums discussing this in my referrer logs, but honestly it feels like the vast majority of small UK communities have already been absorbed by Facebook or Discord, which is pretty depressing.
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@russss I'm worried about the impact on fedi. I just can't see any way that a Mastodon server owner can say with certainty that they are complying (since federation with a noncompliant server would instantly make you noncompliant).
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