Seems to me, there’s no real way to age verify people. This is pointless.

Want ID? Kids can just upload a fake one.

The app wants access to your phone’s camera, so it can use ai to assess your age? Well I don’t know for certain, but I’m 99.9% there’s probably a way to trick your phone into using a virtual camera, showing images of a middle-aged man.

What ever method of age verification, someone will figure out a way to trick it, and kids will be onto the trick very quickly.

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There are far too many people who will benefit financially from this to allow that to happen.

Orly? Can you give me a couple of examples?

I’m opposed to this trend myself, btw. But I just interpreted as a bit of pointless over regulation by a bunch of populist nanny-statists. You’re telling me there’s financial interests involved as well?

You’ve obviously neverheard of the illustrious 8th century Norwegian King, Eystein the Fart.

I had no idea that this was going on. I expect that, like me, most people are horrified.

On the top of my head, I’d say a trust-level system would be great, both for instances and users. New instances and users start out on a low trust level. Posts and commemts federated by them could be set to require approval or get deranked compared to other posts and comments.

Good thinking, but devil’s advocate here: might make it difficult for new users to post anything. I can imagine a lot of communities would utilise that feature, maybe even the majority.