XSF Discussion - 2026-06-15

> Wouldn't be surprised if Minecraft silently phones home with servers you connect to they do this quite loudly like they make zero attempt to hide the fact that they do so, hence why you should be installing anti-telemetry mods and nochatreports, and generally only play on servers with them installed as well ↺

Mickaël, ping

What did I miss :)

Mickaël: Oh, hi! Could you please drop by the Comm Team Muc for a second?

Polarian, around?

Anyways, Im leave this here as it seems to have an impact on quite a few people ..

Here you'll find a preliminar analysis about the age verification coming to everyone in the UK by one of the most highly specialized lawyers on English Internet, telecoms, and tech ..

https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/116753016518643319

If you have any further questions or doubts, make sure to follow him. You won't find any better source of authority on the matter.

Also, here's a link to his blog. Make sure to keep up with all of his entries, and *do* read them: https://decoded.legal/blog/

You can find the rest of the information in his Mastodon Bio.

I have created the XSF membership application page for Q3 2026 at: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Membership_Applications_Q3_2026 When you are interested to join the XSF you can apply now. When you are an existing member that needs to reapply you can do this as well now. Thanks

Alex: thank you!

I think I'm on Q3 .. let's check ..

Yup .. first in the list 🫠

The UK government announcement explicitly says "We do not intend for messaging services [...] to be included in the social media ban". It does name WhatsApp and Signal explicitly, but there's no reason to think messaging uses of XMPP would also not count as "messaging services".

dwd: so, movim is banned but not gajim?

TBD

but maybe

though WhatsApp has "stories" and public channels right?

mathieui, That's a possible interpretation. But Australia explicitly listed out "social media" which fell under the ban, as I recall.

singpolyma, I'm not saying the proposed law is sensible. But it might not be as annoying to us as a community as it might.

Right. Worth opposing for locals but for us more of a let's see

> though WhatsApp has "stories" and public channels right? Signal also has "stories" ↺

> though WhatsApp has "stories" and public channels right? yes, but they also have money ↺

gnemmi, I am here, need something?

hello

Hello edwtie

dwd, meh worry about it next year when it comes into force.

Im sure by then they will have banned VPNs, end to end encryption, and mandated a backdoor into all UK electronic devices.