@iftas @neil @russss @rachelcoldicutt I just still find it very sad, was chatting to the folk who run the Islington CC forum and of course that's one of the ones I'm shutting down, and they're just looking to move to Discord. the Espruino forum will also close and the person who runs that project may consider it an end to the whole project as it's hard to run these indie / craft ventures without an open forum where people can discuss beyond the boundaries of the business about what they're doing with the things. I'm closing a huge French forum because it's not economically viable to run that one without also running LFGSS, and I have to close LFGSS because I can't meet the technical requirements that will be needed.
all that is happening is consolidation onto major providers.
I'm really hoping that on the fediverse at least, that a grand scale disobedience, the sheer number of instances, and the decentralised nature, results in a the Act being ignored.
I hope that the OSA goes the way of the 4 separate Gin Acts which were all widely ignored... although of course, unfortunately the final Gin Act did take effect and resulted in 150+ years of only the large established Gin companies being able to produce Gin... and this is what it feels like, consolidation by law, and the resulting extermination of the hobby instance.
for the small fedi instances that have asked me whether it applies to them... it does, but I've recommended offshoring and using the privacy of DNS, the small size of their instance, and lack of any obvious identifying information that suggests it's UK related... to basically ignore the law... which is what I'll be doing for the much smaller things I help give time to but didn't feel I could do to the moderately sized things that had very clear association to the UK.
it's just sad, that's how I feel about it. oh well
