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In addition, just a word of advice: if you run a Mastodon server, or another fedi server: you seriously need to look up the UK Online Safety Act.

It will affect you, it's social media, it's included in it as you have users posting content.

ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/ill

If I was running one, to be blunt, I would just straight-up shut it down. Not worth the potential fines. This law is totally whack.

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www.ofcom.org.ukTime for tech firms to act: UK online safety regulation comes into forcePeople in the UK will be better protected from illegal harms online, as tech firms are now legally required to start taking action to tackle criminal activity on their platforms, and make them safer by design.
Christian Tietze

@gamingonlinux This sounds awful! But the link you shared doesn’t seem to say anything related to running your forum. What did I miss? (fellow forum
operator here)

@soulsource @gamingonlinux To be frank, sounds not too different from German requirements, and if file uploading and linkmposting is prohibited before a manual screening, you’re half way there, it seems