Chatter on nostr today would indicate a potential balkanization of nostr relays and related services, due to the hassle of complying with or fear of the penalties from failing to comply with the UK's Orwellian Online Safety Act.

If this happens, nostr, in part, breaks for UK users. Not the protocol or the fundamentals, but many experiences will. And the rest of us lose by losing UK users.

Two opportunities present themselves which I hope we capitalize on:

1. For nostr builders to double down on and stress test the decentralization of relays and ancillary services, like media hosting (e.g. blossom). And for more nostr users to dig in, do the work, and self-host.

2. For UK users to circumvent, refuse to comply, and find ways to either opt out or get out. Godspeed.