KYC = know your customer

For everyone else but knowing

Big Tech IS big government. It's the same, the difference is just that one has a profit model and that another in some countries can be elected.

And in some, both are the same.

My understanding is that a handful of instances on the fediverse have geo-IP blocked the UK rather than open themselves to legal trouble.

I would guess that the others are either operated outside of anywhere that the UK can enforce its rules, not beholden to the new rules (I believe I read that there is a minimum user count for them to actually apply), or are just winging it.

I'd be shocked if more than maybe 4 instances of systems on the fediverse even had the resources to try to comply with this.

The Fediverse is decentralized, a law cannot affect all of Mastodon, Lemmy, or Peertube.

There are hundreds of servers in different parts of the world. Choose one you like.

Fediverse is very good at censorship resistance, much better than alternatives.
If internet is restricted in your country, use a VPN. If you're an admin, move your server to a different country.

If internet is not restricted, then there is nothing to worry about.

@fediverse

The nice thing about the fediverse being open source is that if an instance or the developers required this the solution work be to fork. I predict an new migration to lemmy if reddit starts requiring ID.

Uk here.

Mastodon and Pixelfed are working fine.

@gasull@lemmy.ml what the heck are you talking about?

Mastodon can not "KYC" UK users because there is no central Mastodon. Even if an instance like mastodon.social gets bad ideas you can install your own Mastodon instance since node to node communication is - ignoring moderation - unrestricted.

going after small internet sites would mean we have slipped deep into authoritarian rule