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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day
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How does that stinky stupid fucking law work with fediverse? Number of known accounts on the particular instance?
How does that fucking shitty law work with nostr, where there is no concept of accounts nor users?
Off hand, only instances with adult content would really be scrutinized at first, but any lemmy instances based on the UK might have to relocate their servers or domains rather than incur costs of compliance. The law also describes social media as "user-to-user" platforms, and I thought I saw somewhere that 10,000 users was the lower end of platforms they care about. Likely banning UK IPs on all instances would be the only real final step since there's no money to take in fines from a lemmy instance.
The Unraid forums are very active.
As far as I understand it I thought even old forums were subject to this, or anywhere there's "peer to peer content"
That's why it was so dangerous, because big companies would comply to avoid the fine but smaller companies would literally go bankrupt
Yes, but the rinky-dink site needs to also have either a majority UK users, or be focused on the UK market to qualify (per my understanding). Otherwise, globally all forum sites would just fold up because the UK has a stupid law? Why does, for example, Ridgelineownersclub.com/forums need to go offline when the Honda Ridgeline isn't even sold in the UK?
A lot of small and local news sites in the US, still to this day, just block European IPs because they don't feel like doing GDPR compliance. The UK version costs money to meet compliance, so I can't see this going well for anyone over the long term.
globally all forum sites would just fold up because the UK has a stupid law
They can just block access from any UK based IP address and carry on as normal. Like many of them are doing already, including some Lemmy instances (although funnily enough, not lemmynsfw).
forums.somethingawful.com is still going strong.
Great general use nerd forum to this day yep. Probably most of us have grey hair.
The Seat Cupra forums are still active, and seems to be a great place for help with your car.
mountainproject.com
fetlife.com
pretty much any communuty dedicated to a specific model of car or motorcycle.
astralcodexten.com is an old school blog that still has a very active comments section.
Yep all the car forms are active. We need to bring back forms. I would like that. And old school chatrooms with no AI or bots. I miss Yahoo chat that also had games you could play with other players. Like Domino's and Pool.
Ugh FetLife has the worst people though. It's all horny men who don't understand boundaries.
Something Awful is still around. But the forum isn't free.
What? You have to pay to be a racist sexist gore porn addict now?
You've always had to pay for SA's forums. It's how they keep the riffraff out.
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