The question is prompted by the age verification app that the EU has just presented.
Some EU countries want to ban social media for young people. If that were to happen, what then?
The question is prompted by the age verification app that the EU has just presented.
Some EU countries want to ban social media for young people. If that were to happen, what then?
You could run your own family forum just fine. The problems start when you want to federate. Let me be crass to make the point. Say someone posts child porn and that gets federated to your instance. You think you can just declare that someone else’s problem to avoid legal complications?
The way I expect this would work, is that instances would become responsible for who they federate with. If an instance allows your family instance to federate, they would allow your users to indirectly use their instance. We’ll have to wait what lawmakers or courts do, as you say. But I think, federation would only be by manual approval after some sort of check for compliance, or maybe even a legal contract similar to how it goes in GDPR. Actually, such GDPR contracts might be required anyway, but who cares.
Age verification aside, the likelihood is that eventually the Threadiverse, if it grows, will change as to require manual approval of new instances anyway just on a pure spam issue and abuse level.
Maybe, but letting a new instance federate doesn’t create a bigger abuse risk than allowing account creation. Going through a compliance checklist takes more effort.
It might split the Fediverse in compliant and non-compliant, where compliant servers don’t talk to the others.
I mean I don’t see how it’s plausible how government regulatory bodies even go to the level of trying to micromanage a network that had 40k monthly visitors tbh