We live in the UK. She didn’t go any further than this. I got her to download TOR and use the “old.Reddit” trick to bypass this so it was only mildly infuriating for her in the end

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      21時間前

      I was banned 5 days ago for 6 days. Can I be strong enough not to go back? Please give me the strength to stay away.

      • hector@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        11時間前

        I got a 3 day ban, 2nd offence, on my 6th account, after the 3-day ban I abandon the account.

        Only took 6 weeks this time and I was watching myself. They have dishonest moderation At Site wide level and I do not want to use it at all either, unless maybe two Shuffle people to the fediverse.

        • ronl2k@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9時間前

          They have dishonest moderation

          The mods are also unaccountable. They can (and do) simply ignore your DMs asking for details or reconsideration of your ban. And even if they do respond, the reasoning will be a short gibberish response that you cannot appeal.

          • hector@lemmy.todayEnglish
            1·
            2時間前

            Also many will remove your comments without telling you, it appears to be posted, I learned reveddit showed you what was removed.

            But yeah mods work for free so allowing their petty tyranny is a selling point of the gig, not sure how lemmy works, did see one dude that said banned user arguing with people on another instance.

        • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9時間前

          The audience over there is definitely a lot less intelligent than we have over here. And the bots & reposts & even bots COMMENTING are probably an overwhelming majority of the audience over there. It’s sick & pointless & a waste of time & I must break the addiction.

      • Rose56@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        21時間前

        I’m not gonna lie, I visit Reddit too, but without an account and in private, for 3 and only communities. Most of my time is Lemmy. You can start slowly like I do. People use to complain about dead niche communities here, but no one contributes like some users do every day here. Be the change and help communities grow, so you don’t have to go back to Reddit.

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1日前

    This sounds more like a “fuck UK age restriction laws” not reddit.

    The UK’s age restriction laws online are now enforced under the Online Safety Act (OSA), which requires online platforms to verify the age of users before they access categories of “harmful” content, including pornography and content related to self-harm or eating disorders. Websites, apps, and services hosting such content must implement robust age checks, with platforms facing significant fines or blocking if they fail to comply. Methods for age verification can include facial age estimation, ID scanning, or credit card checks.

    • hector@lemmy.todayEnglish
      21·
      10時間前

      They did not call out the true mofivation of lawmakers so they are complicit.

  • BertramDitore@lemmy.zipEnglish
    37·
    2日前

    “Estimate age from selfie”?! Wtf have we become…

    When I was 14, I looked like I was 20. When I was 20, I looked like I was 35. When I was 35, I looked like I was 50. You can’t determine someone’s actual age from a fucking photo. Jesus.

    • pleaseletmein@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      1日前

      I have perpetually looked like I’m 12 since 2008. That’s the most common number people always give me when they guess my age. I’m so sure an AI would somehow guess correctly.

    • livejamie@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      2日前

      Reddit doesn’t really care; they’re going to do the bare minimum legally so they can feed more ads and get more clicks.

    • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.orgEnglish
      11·
      2日前

      When I was working at a local supermarket, we had the instructions to explicitly ask anyone for ID that we deemed 40 or younger, when they tried to buy tobacco or alcohol. For that exact reason.

      • jnod4@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        2日前

        You nees to do a video looking left, right, saying some numbers. The companies that do the verification are owned by Peter thiell and co

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    2日前

    Can’t have kids looking at teeth! Next thing you know, they’ll want to become, forgive me for this, dentists.

  • unalivejoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    39·
    2日前

    Reddit needs a better tagging system than just NSFW. It was pointless having a filter when you don’t subscribe to any porn subreddits and all the ones you are subscribed to don’t allow porn in the first place. It’s only natural people started using NSFW for other things, most notably spoilers, which I believe they’ve added in recent years. If you had the filter enabled, you ended up missing out on content.

  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    2日前

    Fun fact: I can’t see the screenshot as I’m in the UK and your instance has taken the maximally paranoid literal meaning of the OSA and blocked access just in case anything’s accidentally not flagged as NSFW.

      • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        2日前

        You know how everybody blames boomers for various things, which had nothing to do with them, they were merely victims of the capitalist corrupt systems they lived under? This is your generation’s failure to address the needs of the future. Good luck.

        • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          2日前

          It’s really weird for you to start flinging divisive shit at someone who wasn’t being ageist to begin with, but if you wanna fling shit, start by telling me the average age of the parliament that passed this law.

    • DrDystopia@lemy.lolEnglish
      5·
      2日前

      taken the maximally paranoid literal meaning

      Them people won’t get hung on a technicality. You have to be nuts not to be paranoid these days.

      • AnyOldName3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2日前

        With how the law is written, if you think anyone might ever make a mistake (likely), think the government might ever bother going through the hassle of enforcing it (probably less likely if you’re not running a big website), and don’t have loads of spare money to pay huge fines with or to pay an age verification service with (likely), then blocking the UK is the only way to be compliant. It doesn’t require a technicality. The law just doesn’t have any leeway for honest minor mistakes or small hobbyist websites.

    • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2日前

      Images should load from your local Lemmy instance right?

      But checking now I see you, OP and the com are all from the same instance. So I’m confused.

        • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          2日前

          Oh shit, my bad. Was reading too fast.

          But still, the image should load from your local instance right? So in that commenters case, lemmy.world right?

          Edit: at least on my instance, it appears to go through a proxy on my local instance:

          https://images.lemmy.zip/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmings.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F3b9a4c4b-3079-4e67-a5e2-0cd49074d81f.png

          Do some other instances direct link images?

    • FishFace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2日前

      At least on lemmy we can just block instances that do idiotic things like that and still use the rest of the service

  • Mike Hunt@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    2日前

    Reddit isn’t worth it any more IMO, It’s all just downvoting and moaning over everything. Yes that happens here but at least people seem to talk more.

    • yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2日前

      Even worse, it’s all just corporate and nation-state shill accounts. They’re the only ones willing to put up with all the bullshit required to post.

      • Mike Hunt@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2日前

        I know they say half of Reddit is fake but I’m willing to bet it’s more, they can’t be be real people with some of the stuff they come out with.