Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced)
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/401475/I can't imagine one person running over 300 forums with 275,000 active users. That gives you an average of eight minutes a week to tend to the needs of each one.
I used to run a single forum with 50,000 active users, and even putting 20 hours a week into it, I still didn't give it everything it needed.
I know someone currently running a forum with about 20,000 active users and it's a full-time job for him.
I don't understand how it's possible for one person to run 300 forums well.
The thing though is how to finance it and how to provide stewardship for the sites going forward.
Running sites like this post is about is not profitable. Nor is it too resource intensive.
So basically is this act a ban on indvidual communication through undermoderated platforms?
Is there an argument why we would want it any other way?
I don't know where you're seeing that as the site does not have such things. The only cookies present are essential and so nothing further was needed.
The site does not track you, sell your data, or otherwise test you as a source of monetisation. Without such things conforming with cookie laws is trivial... You are conformant by just connecting nothing that isn't essential to providing the service.
For most of the sites only a single cookie is set for the session, and for the few via cloudflare those cookies get set too.