glowie

The bitchat part is, yup

And this is why I registered once with a disposable debit card. Fuck you, Adobe.

For sure, I understand that. It will ultimately come down to the individual. Are they willing to wait it out and see if they even get contacted by the UK gov in some way. If you're running yours in a VPS you could set up geo-blocking in a way that's standard for any webserver, outside anything to do with Nostr. That'd be the sysadmin and simplest way of dealing with it at least. Personally, I'm not changing anything for the UK.

Relay operator and implementation dev here... operators could moderate if they wanted, via IP blocklists or anything else such as specific words/phrases filters, etc depending upon which implementation they use. There are some relay implementations that are quite customizable and since they're FOSS, the code could be forked altered for anything else custom that makes the United Kuckdom happy.

Bluesky sucks

Sad to think there will be real people who are fine with the privacy invasive spyware

Just a feeling, but from anecdotal experience it seems like the initial release was very good and they quickly realized just how powerful of a tool it was for the average person and now they've dumbed it down in many ways on purpose.