问HN：OSA将如何影响小型Mastodon实例？
我目前并不是Mastodon的用户，但对这个项目有一些兴趣。我看到了一些内容，似乎表明OSA（在线安全法案）可能会使自托管Mastodon变得困难，因为需要提供年龄验证。然后我阅读了相关条款，意识到这实际上不会影响到你，除非你每月有至少300万用户，因此理论上不会影响只有少量用户的自托管者。但我又想到，如果你与一个非常大的实例进行联邦连接，那么你的用户可能会与足够多的用户互动，从而受到这些条款的影响。
这可能是一个灰色地带，如果自托管者不小心，可能会面临相当大的风险。
我想知道是否有任何英国的Mastodon托管者在考虑这个问题。你们是否考虑关闭以避免任何责任？这会不会是Mastodon在英国托管的“死亡”？
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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 provisions and realsised that 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. But then I thought that 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.<p>This could potentially be a grey area that could expose self hosters to considerable risk if they are not careful.<p>I wonder if there any UK based Mastodon hosters out there who are considering this. Are you considering shutting down to prevent any liability? Could this be the "death" of Mastodon hosting in the UK?