My latest FOSS Academic post is a doozy.

[rwg@aoir.social]

My latest FOSS Academic post is a doozy. It's "Reading the Digital Safety Act with My Mastodon Admin Hat On":

https://fossacademic.tech/2026/06/11/reading-digital-safety-act.html

I'm reading Canada's proposed Digital Safety Act. My conclusion is that the proposed regulations could be very burdensome to non-profit, community-run social media, including AoIR.social.

I'd love feedback on this, particularly from Canadian fediverse admins.

#mastodon #fediverse #Canada

[julian@activitypub.space]

@rwg@aoir.social usually there's a carve out for smaller instances. If this affects all social networks regardless of size, this makes my business as a purveyor of hosted forums essentially untenable.

Watching closely.

[packetcat@tenforward.social]

@rwg if the law applies to small instances like Ten Forward then compliance would be an untenable burden for me.

I expect it to not apply to fediverse instances or anything that has less than say, 1M monthly average users, historically such laws have targeted the large social networks.

[oli@olifant.social]

@rwg Hopefully some of the labeling requirements can be handled by this:

https://fires.fedimod.org/

(and some labels: https://fires.1sland.social/labels)

(Mostly using IFTAS labels, but 'Synthetic Media' is one of them.)