Y’all, the UK’s law about needing an ID to be on any social media platform over 10,000 users is the canary in the coal mine. Similar laws have already been proposed by US states and other countries. On a long enough timeline, this is coming for us all.
So, with that in mind, I want to get in early with some good old fashioned forum sites. You know, the kind that have no app and don’t need my Fing ID to let me sign up.
Any topic welcome as long as the community is active and strong.
Yes, but the rinky-dink site needs to also have either a majority UK users, or be focused on the UK market to qualify (per my understanding). Otherwise, globally all forum sites would just fold up because the UK has a stupid law? Why does, for example, Ridgelineownersclub.com/forums need to go offline when the Honda Ridgeline isn’t even sold in the UK?
A lot of small and local news sites in the US, still to this day, just block European IPs because they don’t feel like doing GDPR compliance. The UK version costs money to meet compliance, so I can’t see this going well for anyone over the long term.
They can just block access from any UK based IP address and carry on as normal. Like many of them are doing already, including some Lemmy instances (although funnily enough, not lemmynsfw).
Lemmy keeps shitting itself for me, refusing to load anything at all. Im out of the loop on tech for a long time so I cant figure out what’s wrong with it, but every time it does it I think “oh this is it, they’ve just said fuck the uk”