got the notification to verify my age when trying to access NSFW posts or profiles already for a few weeks now, but as of today my whole account is blocked unless I verify. I guess that’s it then. Based in Austria btw, so there is no specific law in place that forces Reddit to implement this and I will definetly not give my personal information to Persona, a company that belongs to Peter Thiels Palantir group.
It’s better here anyway. Spez has banned everyone and there’s only bots left.
debatable that it’s better here, the ideal is to use nothing.
sure, it’s a lot less fashy on lemmy, but goddamn there are some shockingly dense motherfuckers on this website that are worse than redditors. the top comment on basically every article posted to lemmy is someone aggressively and angrily asking a deeply ignorant rhetorical question for attention, and it’s usually answered by the article. at least reddit sometimes has a decent comment at the top.
i swear half of lemmy is just people going “i literally don’t understand this simple thing and it’s also the stupidest thing i’ve ever heard” when in reality it’s just a bunch of people inside of a social bubble that don’t understand the actual world around them, like, at all. and i don’t mean just politically, i mean generally.
never going back to reddit but there are just so many shamefully stupid people on lemmy, it’s grating.
I literally don’t understand how you could just come out and say the stupidest thing in the world ;)
Yeah lemming’s brains are melted. Literacy in the bit.
Commenting on an article without reading it should carry the penalty of a day in the stocks.
Sometimes I want to know what actually happened in the article to know if it’s worth reading without giving some clickbait bullshit the benefit of my clicks.
Asking for a title adjustment, mirror, or source of a transcript with intent to read shall be a valid defence under the law. However said comment must not otherwise violate the tenants of the law nor contain inducements for others to do so.
you can block those instances, and communities. tankies are the worst, and a few instances for some reaso blahaj will ban you for anything too.
Everybody reading this: IKR, those idiots are so frustrating.
I already made this account a while ago, but never really got into Lemmy so much, since it’s so damn hard to post videos here - that is the main reason I still used Reddit more - you can just drop videos there without having to use other video platforms that require you to make an account too,…
ehhh. the nsfw community is a bit lacking. which, like it or not, drives user engagement and boosts content creation.
We defederated the NSFW instance because they allow a fauxbait community.
What is fauxbait, you may wonder? Well, you’ve probably heard of jailbait, which is nudes of children who look like adults. Fauxbait is faux jailbait. It’s nudes of adults who look like children who look like adults.
And often these are regular consenting adult porn models, who look like adults, but some pervert went “nyehehe these women look like children” and posted them to this community. And I think that’s degrading and harmful to these women’s livelihoods. I wouldn’t want someone to look at My boobs and decide I looked like a kid.
Furthermore, according to Australian law, framing a picture as child porn (or fake child porn) makes it child porn. It’s kinda the same problem as the 4000 year old dragon who looks like a little girl.
Is it better than r/jailbait and all the pedo shit on Reddit? Sure. But it’s still pedo shit, and I want a social network with zero pedo shit.
cool.
Welcome to lemmy!
It’s always interesting to see what it takes for someone to leave reddit. It wasn’t all the bullshit before, but this is was over the line for this user. How much more can they keep getting away with before a tipping point? The standards people have today are so eroded.
The standards people have today are so eroded.
Exactly look at Xbox 360 and PS4 going downhill.
The last straw for me was getting rid of sorting by Hot on my main feed, effectively making it useless. I don’t want to sort by Best that shows posts from days ago, get that Facebook shit out of here. Also there was a new tab that interspersed “recommended posts” in your main feed. It’s an option now but I doubt it would be in the future. The point of having a curated feed is to see shit you’re subscribed to, not whatever engagement slop is on r/popular.
For me it was new reddit, saw what was coming and spent a lot less time there (yes I used old mode still), then the API changes and mass banning of subreddits sealed the deal. Never returned.
on mobile they are far more intrusive, when you backspace they reload the page, and sends you to the top of the feed on old mobile, and zooms in for no reason, its designed to make old reddit as unpleasant as possible so you are forced to use the new reddit UI, which is worst, because in the newer one, it eventually slows the loading page for so long you have to close the browser to reset it. they eventually want people to use the APP, so they can datamine your device as well.
ah! That explains why I had day-old posts suddenly creep up in my feed, I was already wondering about that …
reddit definitely made a change months ago , that shows you old post. they want people to engage with older posts, that are useless.
There’s no use in interacting with posts, say, 8 hours old or so. Maybe less. Everybody has already moved on.
Edit: that’s why I like the slower pace of the Fediverse, it’s like the old messages boards I grew up with, with posts that simmered for days/months and there wasn’t endless scrolling to steal your attention.
Yeah, I remember being super excited in 2005 or so to check my forum threads and see where I had gotten replies. Conversations were often still measured in weeks back then.
It’s like the boiling frog problem
Proves that convenience is the stopper. Steam and netflix can attest. Make it hard, I’ll hit the high seas.
You need to remember there’s addiction involved too. That will cause people to accept more awful than they normally would.
the new UI is the doom scroll addiction nonsense, that reddits is tried to force.
Dude pull your head out of your ass. There are things on reddit that there are no replacements for. Lemmy doesn’t hold a candle to the user base of reddit. The standard is simply “is this useful to me” and it’s not hard to understand why people find value there.
Fucking holier than though dipshit.
And you wonder why things are the way they are…
*thou
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My idiocy is on full display. Thanks for the correction.
Reddit is dead, fanboy. You just don’t know it yet.
01/01/1901
Get with the times, grandpa
01/01/1969
Yours, too?! Crazy!
Eventually you’ll die of old age before you can finger scroll all the way up on wheel from the current year.
That’s obviously wrong.
You think that, but scrolling all the way down gets increasingly longer faster than you think.
Sorry, no, I mean like “that comment is from user obviously wrong.”
No that’s a common misconception, it’s spelled O’bviouslywrong, an old family name. Computers just hate symbols.
is it reddit doing something drastic recently? seen an uptick .
they are continuing to digg their own grave.
They overextended their shaft and the balloon popped. 👻
you need to take a photo of your balls to use reddit now and new accounts cannot login to old reddit as this feature is now restricted to only existing accounts that are older
Even my old account isn’t working on old anymore. Except on my phone for some reason (possibly just haven’t logged back into it on that since whatever changed). Makes it really easy not to hang around on that site after reading whatever drags me there in the first place.
It’s not consistent, I switched to an old dormant account that have not been used at all in at least a year and it went on old fine.
I will not play games that require tpm and secure boot, and I will not use software that requires any sort of identity verification to use. the internet is simply a tool for entertainment for most of my uses, communication is optional.
That’s why i started using Lemmy
Honestly, a VPN is a good investment in your online safety anyway and would bypass this age verification bullshit. We have it in Australia too. Philippines don’t.
Reddit blocks a shit ton of vpns
I’ve used mullvad and airvpn recently and both worked fine for me
I tried signing up with a throwaway protonmail via mullvad browser and VPN and was shadownbanned from day 1.
Maybe they have different rules for new accounts or something then. That said, I would expect a one day old account to require approval (which would appear to be shadowbanned from the user perspective), it’s a very common automod filter.
VPN works for me so far, but like I said in another comment: I use reddit mostly on my work laptop and am not allowed to use VPN there …
Can you not install browser extensions? I can on my work laptop (on either Edge or Chrome - they don’t allow other alternatives), but obviously they’re all locked down differently
on mobile you can. i use sinkit and old reddit, and you can force reddit to be usable in old format on your page.
no, not even browser extensions or even different browsers - it’s pretty restricted
Better late then never. Welcome to the party.
You need to create an alias and not forget it, so you can use a completely different “person” on these shitty sites. I’ve got a dozen email addresses with names, birthplaces, dates, etc. never know who I am.
Fingerprinting knows
Multiple vpns, paid and free, adblocking and blocking tracking at DNS level, ublock origin, different browsers and operating systems. Good luck. I probably look like some frankenstein user.
And even if you do fingerprint it, you’re fingerprinting a useless alias, so who cares.
The more intricate your configuration, the easier you are to fingerprint. Because nobody else has your exact configuration. For it to not matter, you have to have a sufficiently complex unique fingerprint for every instance of being fingerprinted.
Cookies for the masses, fingerprints for everyone else. It is actually quite difficult to truly be anonymous on the internet today.
Well you do you, I’ll do me.
I wasn’t suggesting you do otherwise. Just trying to keep folks informed.
If you’re interested in fingerprinting, check out this site. It will tell you how sites see your exact configuration.
I tried it. Unfortunately it is wrong in several of statements about my machine. Since it cannot detect the specifics of my machine nor its settings, one can conclude that either this website is wrong or my settings for protection work well. Hard to fingerprint someone when their are inaccuracies.
IIRC they can fingerprint you based on your writing style and interests.
thats not all they do, they look at your browser , timezones. how long you linger on a page on reddit and if you are scrolling or commenting, up and downvoting.
That’s what I do when I get a notice like this. Accept that I just move on.
And that’s the end of using reddit, right?
it definetly is for me … spent the whole afternoon yesterday to pass on ownership of all my subs to other mods …
Redlib if you must keep using Reddit. If not, alternative forums, fediverse included, invite you.
At this point, it doesn’t make any sense to use Reddit at all. Just go to the Lemmy and the fediverse.
Or if you hate yourself, you can also try 9gag, there’s not much difference now between that and Reddit.
Use a VPN exit point in Singapore
VPN works for now, but I am mostly online on my work-laptop (yeah I know 😂) and I am not allowed to run a VPN on that one …
The verification flag might be tied to the account if there’s no specific local law. If that is the case wherever they pop out reddit will try id them.
Australia have a social media under 16 ban in place. It is due to that.
OP said Austria, so maybe not.
Oh, yea. My bad.
Why are people still on reddit? Might as well go join Truth Social or X if you care that little about what you’re contributing to.
Not all communities have an equivalent here.
Create those communities or post in other existing communities with a similar topic.
I know it’s annoying if you are the first one and no one react to the content but someone has to start.
I am mostly consumer of these subs and I don’t have an interest in changing this. I also have no ideology behind this. If the stuff I need is on reddit, I’ll simply keep using reddit for these things as long as reddit works. Once they lock me out, I am out.
no niche communities here, plus other large subs have no equivalent here.
