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Potential Impact of OSA on Small Mastodon Instances

By

Digit-Al

10mo ago· 1 min readenOpinion

Summary

The article discusses concerns about the potential impact of the OSA (Online Safety Act) on small Mastodon instances, particularly regarding age verification requirements. While the OSA provisions apply to platforms with at least 3 million monthly users, the author raises the possibility that federated interactions with large instances might indirectly subject smaller instances to these rules.

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I was looking at some stuff that seemed to indicate to me that the OSA could make it difficult to self host Mastodon without providing age verification.
It didn't really affect you unless you have at least 3 million monthly users, so in theory would not affect self hosters with only a few users.
If you are federated with a very large instance then your users could potentially be able to interact with enough users to fall under the provisions.
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I am not currently a user of Mastodon, but I have some interest in the project. I was looking at some stuff that seemed to indicate to me that the OSA could make it difficult to self host Mastodon without providing age verification. I was then reading the

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