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The following sites and services have stated that the Online Safety Act 2023 is the reason for their closing, or for geo-blocking UK users. - AWScommunity.social, a Mastodon instance for discussing AWS technologies, with approximately 300 users (epitaph) - Charlbury in the Cotswolds has (as of 2025-02-19) shut its debate forum (epitaph) - Espruino's forum, a forum for discussing embedded computing (epitaph) - furry.energy, a small (49 user) UK based Mastodon Server oriented towards those in the furry & LGBTQA+ communities (epitaph likely to go missing, as I can't add it archive.org) - Gaming on Linux, a discussion forum about the operating system Linux and computer games (epitaph) - The Green Living Forum, a discussion board running since 2006, with just under 500,000 posts about sustainable living (epitaph) - Haiku (an open source operating system inspired by BeOS)'s discussion forum (epitaph)They've hopefully found a workable solution! - Hexus, a computing gaming and general discussion forum, with approximately 310,000 registered users (epitaph) - LFGSS (London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed), a cycling forum (epitaph) - Lobste.rs, a tech discussion forum (epitaph) - Microcosm, a forum-hosting service, reported as having about 275,000 monthly average users, mostly from the UK (epitaph) - Ready To Go, a discussion forum about Sunderland AFC, a football club (epitaph).

The following sites and services have stated that the Online Safety Act 2023 is the reason for their closing, or for geo-blocking UK users. furry.energy, a small (49 user) UK based Mastodon Server oriented towards those in the furry & LGBTQA+ communities ( epitaph likely to go missing, as I can't add it archive.org) Haiku (an open source operating system inspired by BeOS)'s discussion forum ( epitaph) They've hopefully found a workable solution!

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