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What are other nostr app developers and relay operators doing with regard to the UK Online Services Act?

Apparently there is no legal exception for open source or apps that are not connecting to servers you control or apps that are entirely encrypted and peer to peer.

Basically they want us to KYC anyone they think might be based in the UK, and implement content filters.

There seems to be no way to be in compliance in Nostr without limiting all connections to a single gateway relay the way Primal does, and with geo location, including blocking tor and vpn connections, and content analysis of all text and media.

Basically insanity which is completely counter to the entire Nostr project. I knew there was some of OSA coming but I hadn’t paid attention to it. None of us want to KYC our users or build a content filtering system. I mean how do we know if a post is about a knife? Yes we can’t have content about knives! Or how do we determine who considers content hateful?

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/online-safety/information-for-industry/illegal-harms/illegal-content-codes-of-practice-for-user-to-user-services.pdf?v=391681

What are Nostr devs based in the UK doing? Users? Relay operators?

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El Dorado 4mo ago 💬 1

I would love to know also.

Could you expand on this part « without limiting all connections to a single gateway relay the way Primal does »?

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rabble 4mo ago 💬 1

Primal has a caching relay that pulls content from across the network and provides it faster to the primal client. I believe they push the events you publish out the all the relays in your list but reads from the one centralized caching relay. I think it’s fine as long as it’s your keys and you can use other apps. Some folks think it’s not in the spirit of Nostr.

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El Dorado 4mo ago

Thanks for the explanation Rabble