@SecurityWriter it’s hard to say. Outside of the U.K., most country laws place limits of applicability so that they are really focused on larger platforms. We don’t have a U.K. presence and it seems very unlikely we will pop on their radar.

Mastodon recently added a requirement to add your age on signup and lets admins set a minimum age, but that’s basically cosmetic. I don’t see a future where we can do anything more than that. If it becomes too legally perilous to continue, I and likely most all other operators will close shop. I love yall, but I’m not sitting in jail to protest a policy that I have no hope of changing.

Anyhow, things like this have happened every few months for the now 9 years I’ve been running the place and it’s never once been an issue.

@SecurityWriter btw, it's a good question. I'm sure lots of people have similar questions.

To put a fine point on it - even if I wanted to comply with a law that requires more aggressive age verification, it's just not possible. I couldn't afford to do it- whatever it is, I wouldn't have the time to do it, and I wouldn't be willing to accept the risk of handling people's identification. So I go back to the point that there is just no way forward for complying with those laws. I suspect 99.5% of the rest of the fediverse, maybe even 100% would be in the same spot. For now, we keep our heads down and hopefully stay off the radar.