I agree with the other person that the JC fan club-cum-cult only became a real cult heading to religion after it had the sacrificial death to lean on.

The escape velocity was achieved not from the leader dying, as the martyrdom was the key factor long-term, but more so that it survived the core group of founders by being pliable. It wasn’t the “message” per se, but the decentralized and un-professionalizing of the religion that made it so that anyone could practice it, and for less hassle and cost than existing religions. It reached escape velocity because the barrier to entry for outsiders to practice and become leaders was lower.

Same

What? You have to pay to be a racist sexist gore porn addict now?

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.

I can’t find the reference to 10,000 users again, so take my own words with a grain of salt. The law itself doesn’t give a minimum number. But if you start a new instance called “dicksoutforharambe.lemmy.uk” with NSFW content, and hosting it on servere physically in the UK, I imagine that within 2-3 years, someone will come calling.

You’ll be surprised at how quickly AI enabled site blocking will be implemented. Yes, even Bob’s cast iron cooking forum or antique shaving razors. It’ll be just one more way to collect data on people.

Well, a large number of UK users, OR targeting the UK market, is enough as well.

Personally, I think the solution is to have the whole world ban the UK from their websites and see how long this stupid law lasts.

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.

If you warm it up, it becomes soup!

I’ve been saying a version of this for years.

Zero Knowledge Proofs are, yes, only half of what’s needed. Much like pulling my ID from my wallet, I need to actively consent to offering the service the data I confirm. Preferably (IMO) every time it’s requested.

Otherwise what’s to stop verification abuse from literally turning into session hijacking? Someone sends me a phishing link and if I have ID auto-submit turned on, an attacker can in a second run my full name and ID contents as attributed to anything.

Linux and open source software.

Tested out a dualboot of Linux Mint about 2 years ago on a Windows laptop. Wanted to see how far I could get on 100% open source and free software.

I got far enough that I never looked back.

Sssshhhhh, it’s encrypted.

Fffffff, that’s like a movie set in 1974 released today.

There’s a persistent (among conservatives) theory, supported by some batshit crazy book, that “liberalism,” as in empathy, compassion, and use of resources for more than just immediate househild gratification, is a mental illness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism_Is_a_Mental_Disorder