To be fair, minnix.dev seems like a very marginal instance.

Both seem up for me.

I thought Kbin (I used kbin first) was okay but really overturned with too much going on and no real reason to use it.

Widespread instance blocking? I only know of a handful of instances often blocked.

Piefed has polls

It’s funny because for new low-traffic communities now, Reddit is worse than the Fediverse in my opinion. The Fediverse has an effective catalog on every instance, you can search instances, you can rename your community to be more visible (you can’t do this on reddit). I would also suggest you look into Piefed, which has even more tools here.

Americans arent exactly in a great position to judge right now.

Lemmy.zip has already blocked UK users and Lemmy.world will almost certainly do the same.

For clarity, lemmy.zip had blocked them months ago because the owner of lemmy.zip is based in the UK and theoretically could actually be fined. This is not the same situation as lemmy.world.

What do you mean “centralise”? Into larger websites?

I highly doubt the US government would look fondly 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. Especially under this administration. It would be seen as foreign interference. And for that reason, I very much doubt Ofcom would ever do that. They’d just block the site violating OSA.

As a sidenote, I remember that UK has an odd and ancient “law” stating something in the lines “” (i.e. being anti-monarchy and advocating for the end of monarchy, even without any violent language/means but a pacific defense of anti-monarchy). I couldn’t find it, nor I can remember the exact phrasing, but such a “law” threatens prison time for those who “dare” to “offend” the crowniness of UK Crown. Also, I’m not sure to what extent this law is applied in practice.

Given there’s an active pro-republican campaign site I’d wager not at all.

If countries are capable of passing draconian laws against their own citizens, don’t expect that those same countries couldn’t go further to impose these laws beyond their own lawns, especially in times of interconnectedness.

UK against the USA? I think the UK isn’t winning that.

No, I mean I chose lemmy.world as the instance to show the announcement on.

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. The forum owners here fear Ofcom pressuring their hosts to force compliance, not extradition. I think its misguided and unlikely (especially for small arms of the fediverse) but it is what it is.

I think in practice Ofcom would just geoblock your site specifically.

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.

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.

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.

I doubt that the USA would recognise and take down websites for not following Ofcoms requirements. And Ofcom would 100% be too cowardly to even threaten that. They’d just geoblock.

To be clear, the specifics in the act go beyond not specifically hosting pornographic content.

Currently Twitter is doing the bare minimum by simply allowing UK users to bypass the age-checks by setting their location to another country.