intended target and possible target are different things.
The law, as it exists, targets any and all communities with “a significant number of United Kingdom users”. There is no minimum size requirement.
It might be possible that the law turns a blind eye on smaller communities. But it might not. They are in their right to go against a 20 user fediverse instance the same way as they are against facebook
that’s the thing. You don’t have to be a company or resident of the UK.
If you have a community (classic forum, lemmy, masto etc) that caters to a “significant part” to UK users, you are target of the act.
And depending on where you live, extraditions to the UK for criminal charges exist.
Will anyone bother doing that? We’ll see
Edit: In case people want to read the law themselves: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/section/4
Play it at slower speed and it sounds like a drunk guy at the party being too philosophical
“finally upgraded my steam deck to 1TB” plays Vampire Survivor
My instance seems to do that for me. Making this post look very confusing for a moment