cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48234252

With the worldwide wave of social media bans on major platforms aka digital verification, I wonder if we’ll see an influx of people to the Fediverse?

🤞🤞🤞 here is hoping <3

  • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    12 hours ago

    It might be hard to enforce for every instance but even if only 1% of instance admins get strongly worded letters threatening fines if they don’t follow the law, I guarantee you that many more will just decide that it’s not worth the risk, they close their instances and we end up with even fewer users than before.

    Lol, Ofcom still are stuck trying to ban 4chan. You overestimate their ability.

    • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.deEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      And you overestimate the amount of bullshit the average instance admin is willing to put up with. Sure there will be a few instances who can afford lawyers, offshore servers, whatever. But the majority are hobbyists who think this whole fediverse thing is neat as long as it costs a few bucks for an off the shelf web host and a bit of free time to moderate. And if those people get legal threats, they will either comply or get out because running an instance with 100 users is just not worth the risk of ruining your life.

      The fediverse wouldn’t die completely but it would for sure lose many smaller instances. We’ve already lost larger ones like lemm.ee for less.

      • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        They don’t need to lawyer up if they have no presence in the UK. They can just send them a meme picture of a hamster.

        Lemm.ee shut down for entirely unrelated reasons.