Skavau
@Skavau@piefed.social
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 4 hours ago:
Lemmy.zip has already blocked UK users and Lemmy.world will almost certainly do the same.
For clarify, lemmy.zip had blocked them months ago because the owner of lemmy.zip is based in the UK. This is not the same situation as lemmy.world.
- Comment on Can no longer access my old instance (lemmings.world) because I'm from the UK. I made several communities there. Is there any way I can mod them again or do I move them to this instance? 1 day ago:
What do you mean "centralise"? Into larger websites?
- Comment on Can no longer access my old instance (lemmings.world) because I'm from the UK. I made several communities there. Is there any way I can mod them again or do I move them to this instance? 1 day ago:
I highly doubt the US government would look likely on a US-based service taking down a US-based social media site because Ofcom complained to them about them not adhering to local laws. And for that reason, I very much doubt Ofcom would ever do that. They'd just block the site violating OSA.
- Comment on I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them 2 days ago:
"platforms must not host, share or permit content encouraging use of VPNs to get around age checks."
I'll also note that this doesn't seem to even be in the official documentation.
- Comment on Lemmings World has also joined in blocking the UK due to OSA. 2 days ago:
No, I mean I chose lemmy.world as the instance to show the announcement on.
- Comment on Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act 2 days ago:
Not when it comes to tech. You think the USA would let Saudi Arabia force the total shut-down of a USA-based site because they allowed people to make fun of Islam? Come on. Saudi Arabia just quiety blocks sites.
UK doesn’t have enough pull to start extraditing thousands of people for not complying with their weirdo laws.
I agree with you there too.
- Comment on Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act 2 days ago:
I think in practice Ofcom would just geoblock your site specifically.
- Comment on I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them 2 days ago:
Reddit is super-screwed then because its full of users doing exactly that anywhere this topic comes up.
- Comment on Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act 2 days ago:
Saudi Arabia has no soft power here. UK does.
Not saying that UK will here (I think they won't), but the relationship dynamics are a bit different.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 2 days ago:
I really, really doubt that a website owner based in USA would be extradited to the UK for not complying with UK local law with how they run their website. That's absurd.
- Comment on Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act 2 days ago:
They believe that Ofcom could pressure their hosts to cut their services off if they don't comply with the act, or believe they could be fined.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 2 days ago:
I doubt that the USA would recognise and take down websites for not following Ofcoms requirements.
- Submitted 2 days ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act 2 days ago:
To be clear, the specifics in the act go beyond not specifically hosting pornographic content.
- Comment on Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act 2 days ago:
Currently Twitter is doing the bare minimum by simply allowing UK users to bypass the age-checks by setting their location to another country.
- Submitted 2 days ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 30 comments
- Comment on Thread concept: List of sites about to block the UK over the Online Safety Act 4 days ago:
I can imagine Ofcoms head exploding at the concept of the Fediverse.
"What's a Lemmy?"
- Comment on Thread concept: List of sites about to block the UK over the Online Safety Act 4 days ago:
Those are UK sites that shut down though?
I mean are there are any new announcements
- Comment on Thread concept: List of sites about to block the UK over the Online Safety Act 4 days ago:
Do we have site of any Lemmy instances that defederate from us? It'll be interesting to see if many do.
They wouldn't need to do that. If they're not in the UK, they wouldn't need to do anything. They're too small and outside Ofcom's power.
Lemmy.zip already geoblocked the UK because even though its hosted from Finland, a UK guy runs it. So he is in theory liable.
- Submitted 4 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 9 comments
- Comment on so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down. 1 week ago:
Yeah, I am just speaking as a general principle - not whatever happened here.
If in my community (for instance) someone was to come in and just downvote the entire first page, I'd probably ban them because that would just be a crude attempt to target it. And again: downvoting like that is worse for smaller communities trying to grow.
- Comment on so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down. 1 week ago:
Anyone banning for downvoting is incredibly petty or thin skinned, just my observation. If it wasn't for the instance shutting down, it would have made a good post on yptb. Reading other comment threads on this post support the thin skinned theory imho. I just happened to be browsing all when I found the post. Looking at my subs, I wasn't subscribed to any community there.
What about in the context of mass-downvoters? I can't speak for Dubvee, but mass-downvoters do exist - and they can be corrosive for smaller communities trying to grow, as early downvotes of threads can effectively kill them.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 2 weeks ago:
He had changed his position after I wrote that comment I believe.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 2 weeks ago:
Apparently, reading the details on there - he might not shut it down.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 2 weeks ago:
No idea, but it's not an active instance so idk what happened.
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 weeks ago:
Piefed and Lemmy can mostly communicate with each other. In any case, you can't really compel Lemmy to update as fast as Piefed is.
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 weeks ago:
There's two factors to this. Lemmy has been slow on developing new features. Eventually people give up despite all the promises. This sort of competition was inevitable, and two - and this cannot be changed - there's a lot of resentment and resistance to using their software for political reasons.
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 weeks ago:
I don't know the details of all decisions lemmy.world instance admins have made, but it seems to me that the #1 instance will always generate the most animosity because it's far more likely than any other instance to find itself in decisions where they're pressed to make decisions by their userbase.
Servers with 20% of the users and 10% of the communities, with only like a dozen 'active' communities will simply never be in that position and generate no meaningful pushback.
- Comment on Netflix Says 50 Percent of Global Users Now Watch Anime, Reveals Expanded Slate 2 weeks ago:
Depends how interested you are in international content. Netflix has most of that.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 3 weeks ago:
I'd object and probably complain and it'd get your instance blacklisted. I'd support all community migrations being made publicly known - so you can see the timestamps and paper trail of a community.
But this isn't quite the way that community migration would work here - it's not quite the same thing. You would be attempting to give the impression I am actively contributing to a community I'm not - whereas I'm talking about moving a community from instance A to B. The community for all intents and purpose is the same.
If did posted actively to a community I do not own or moderate and they moved server and thus took my posts there with them, I wouldn't really object to that.