And that's it. My little Mastodon instance, tbs.social, is gone, thanks to the Online Safety Act 2023. I had literally no way to comply with the (highly contradictory) 'advice' given by the UK government or Ofcom on how to age gate it. £18 MILLION fine for getting it wrong. It was only a bit of fun.
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@thisisrjg Yes, I've just shut down a participatory server I've been running since 1998. It was never hosted in the UK but it unambiguously served a UK-centric user base, and as you say -- between steep, costly, onerous requirements and unclear but potentially huge penalties, there was simply no case for leaving it up.
