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What was the thing for UK users with lemmy.zip? I know I read it somewhere and forgot
I believe the issue was that the UK seemingly wants sites to block people under 18 from seeing porn by collecting IDs from everyone. Rather than police the ages of its users or remove all adult content from the instance the .zip admin decided to just block everyone from the UK to forestall any legal issues that might arise.
https://lemmy.zip/post/31644782
Yeah spot on, it's complicated by me being a UK resident and also the owner, and so the only way to protect the site without introducing age verification and AI monitoring (which are dystopian measures, not to mention incredibly expensive) without changing aspects of the site, is to just not provide a service to the UK users.
If I wasn't in the UK, I'd just ignore this act like every other admin and service does.
As a Brit, I don't blame you at all.
Know of any instances outside the UK with a similar federation policy?
Cheers DGR, you always seem like a real one
Hope things are good with the new life stuff👍
Constantly tired and constantly being screamed at, but its all good thank you 🤣