flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)

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  • We’re hosted in Germany, but that doesn’t actually matter as the admins are physically in the UK so Ofcom fines are actually a worry. I need to do another review (yay), but I’m pretty sure we don’t have to do any age verification. We do have to assume all our users are children though, as we can only say we don’t if we do ‘highly effective age verification’* of our users, and we do host content that is ‘likely to appeal to children’, but I don’t believe we host anything that would need to be gatekept from children. We actively block NSFW content and as far as I’m aware there isn’t a suicide encouragement or terrorist recruitment community on Lemmy. There are maybe some things that I may need to be changed/patch in Lemmy (e.g. letting users lock their own posts), or making some safety tools (one I want to work on is doing perceptual hashing of images embedded in markdown as current tools only work on post links), but I don’t think complying is necessary an issue for us. I’m not a lawyer though and that’s just my understanding, we could be fucked.

    * This entire ‘force every website to keep a separate database of users adult status’ is so stupid and I swear it only works like this because of lobbying from companies like Yoti. PornHub is right that it should be device based, but these laws are only using children as a crutch. It’s implemented like this because certain parts of the British establishment find porn icky and are hoping by making it more invasive to access that you’ll stop watching it. Of course, all this is going to do is push people to sites that don’t follow the law so host more extreme content.




  • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.ukOPtoTechnology@lemmy.worldMatrix is cooked
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    8 months ago

    The article shortens venture capital to VC. It also didn’t confuse the Matrix Foundation with a VC firm of the same name, it’s talking about Element (formerly Riot). Like, the article says this in pretty simple English, I’m genuinely confused how you could’ve missed it:

    In roughly the beginning, there was two organizations that came out of the project: The Matrix Foundation and New Vector Ltd / Riot / Element. The idea was for New Vector Ltd to carry out the necessary work and bring in the necessary funding for the Matrix Foundation to thrive. Or well, so I’ve been told.

    They had multiple funding rounds lead by the likes of status.im, Automattic, the AI and Web3 company protocol labs and others; You get the gist, lots of VC and similar funding also a questionable amount of “Web3” and bullshit generation AI. Element was then tasked with using that to build the software that would power Matrix.