themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoReddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subredditsmashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square130fedilinkarrow-up1804arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1800arrow-down1external-linkReddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subredditsmashable.comthemachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square130fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareblackn1ght@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up75arrow-down3·3 months agoUnder the new UK law, lemmynsfw would also need to have some kind of age verification for UK users.
minus-square.Donuts@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up100arrow-down5·3 months agoThis. Can’t believe we’re seeing “lol Reddit sucks” when this is a country-wide implementation and has nothing to do with Reddit in particular.
minus-squarelolrightythen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down2·3 months agoYou are correct. But this doesn’t lessen the extent to which reddit sucks.
minus-squareptu@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 months agoJust curious, how would this happen in practice? As I understand lemmy instances are defederated across the globe. Who would they send their demands to? Also there is already some nsfw content in lemmy, are those expected to respond now in some way?
minus-squarefloofloof@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-23 months agoMaybe they’ll just make the Fediverse illegal in the UK. Or all non-corporate sites that can’t afford to pay a company like Persona.
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-23 months agoOr it can just defederate from UK based instances. .zip has already been trying to figure out how to handle this law, its also UK based.
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months ago.zip blocks users from the UK iirc.
minus-squareblackn1ght@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoLemmy.zip blocks uk users on its front end but I think its contents is still federated.
Time to go to LemmyNSFW
Under the new UK law, lemmynsfw would also need to have some kind of age verification for UK users.
This. Can’t believe we’re seeing “lol Reddit sucks” when this is a country-wide implementation and has nothing to do with Reddit in particular.
So, the UK sucks.
You are correct. But this doesn’t lessen the extent to which reddit sucks.
Just curious, how would this happen in practice? As I understand lemmy instances are defederated across the globe. Who would they send their demands to? Also there is already some nsfw content in lemmy, are those expected to respond now in some way?
Maybe they’ll just make the Fediverse illegal in the UK. Or all non-corporate sites that can’t afford to pay a company like Persona.
Or it can just defederate from UK based instances.
.zip has already been trying to figure out how to handle this law, its also UK based.
.zip blocks users from the UK iirc.
Lemmy.zip blocks uk users on its front end but I think its contents is still federated.