Turns out the UK government ran a second impact assessment on the Online Safety Act in October, which I didn't know about. They seemed quite surprised to learn that individuals might be running in-scope services.

(I did respond to the original consultation and I definitely told them this then...)

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6716222b9242eecc6c849b09/Online_Safety_act_enactment_impact_assessment.pdf#page=91

cc @neil

For a low-risk micro-business, they estimate the costs of compliance to be £4,620 one-off and £6,040 per year.

They don't provide any estimate for individuals, but I don't really understand how it could be lower.

@russss That is still that much more than it currently costs to run dram.io, which will be in scope enough. I've already turned off signups.
@mgdm I'm not about to shut it down though.