Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update March 2026
Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 2 weeks agoIn terms of the OSA, there is already detection in place for UK IP addresses to prevent them connecting to the site and instead forward them to uk.lemmy.zip - I will at some point need to do the same for Piefed. This takes the sites outside of the OSA so I dont need to comply. The data is all hosted in the EU but having the misfortune to be a UK citizen myself I need to take that extra step.
In terms of the memory, its a bit misleading because the lemmy server is by far our most powerful, so we run a bunch of other stuff on there too, including backend admin tools, Oauth, grafana, matrix etc. So memory consumption will be much higher. Lemmy i think is a bit more performant than piefed but only anedotally, I dont have the comparison to back that up.
pseud@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
For what it’s worth, Libera IRC network published the legal advice that they got. According to that, Lemmy.zip is probably not in scope since it is just too small, thus doesn’t attract too many UK users inherently, and the UK is not a “target market”. They think that doing essentially nothing is a valid response in this case.
Of course, putting a block is also a valid response, and a louder one in some ways.
Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
We have an extra layer of complexity with Lemmy.zip because we have NSFW images, and there is no way in lemmy for me to prevent UK users (or under 18s) from seeing that content if they sign up.
Having NSFW means I need to have “highly effective” age verification in place, regardless of size, which I am obviously not going to do (I dont believe in it for a start, but also its incredibly expensive). If I turn NSFW off, like feddit.uk have, then I could do a risk assessment and all would be well, but then we’d lose things like spoilers in post images (because that functionality doesn’t exist yet) and any risque art communities etc.
I’d also have to proactively scan everything to ensure it wasn’t NSFW otherwise I could potentially be in breach of the OSA - that level of monitoring for a couple of volunteers just isn’t worth it unfortunately!