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Compliance depends on the instance. Pick an instance where the admin doesn’t give a dingo’s kidney, or an instance located in a country where the local law doesn’t require age verification.
Hmm, do we know which countries will be exempt? I hadn't thought about that...
Also, how will they enforce who can just ignore the requirement? Will they not take noncompliant websites down by nameservers or something?
I’ve only heard about UK, Australia and certain states in America. If you live in Kazakhstan next to Borat, you should be fine.
As always, EU is complicated, so we’ll have to wait and see how that works out.
Twitter / X started asking for age verification for adult content when browsed from EU. Works fine from Asia but you also need to set your account country to the one you're browsing from.
So, if you can’t even use Xitter for porn is there anything left? What even is the propose of that site any more?
It's still the biggest art posting platform. And I'm not even sure where art posters should migrate to... I mean sure it would be nice to have them scattered across different fediverse instances, but it would be nice for us, not for them. The main thing they get from X is massive algorithmic reach. You hit like on a Miku art and another artist with their Miku art immediately slips into your feed, you like it even more and you decide to check their profile and you like their other works and you subscribe. This kind of easy and efficient advertisement is something that doesn't exist anywhere else outside of few centralized systems.
Should Lemmy heavily incorporate hashtags, then? Hmm...
Nah. Mastodon can handle that.
I had an impression it didn't work great across instance boundaries. Like, algorithmic discoverability was very limited. I might be wrong and it might have changed since I last checked though. Also I had an impression that Mastodon doesn't really have global cross-instance feed on the same level as Lemmy instances. And again, correct me if I'm wrong here.
That’s partially true. If you use the official mastodon app, you get the following feeds; following, local, lists and followed hashtags. If you use the web UI, you can also see the federated feed. A different client app, like Ice Cubes, gives you a trending feed as well.
There's always the classics. Diviant art, new grounds, ink bunny, pixv, Tumblr, and fur affinity.
If you ever want to share art just look to were the furries flea too. You won't ever find a group more determined to share their art then them.
There isn't a global law about age verification they countries could be exempt of. It's individual countries doing it.
And on top of that the laws are different from what I've seen, in the UK for example you have to fullfil certain criteria to fall under that law. But frankly it seems to be a mess in my opinion.
This is what an age verification service says about it:
https://www.yoti.com/blog/understanding-age-verification-online-safety-act/
I'm waiting to see exactly how the UK plans to compel me, someone who lives outside the UK with a Lemmy server hosted outside the UK, to follow their rules.
If they find me non-compliant, they can block my site.
We are witnessing the next step along the way to a completely fragmented web. Sort of like the DataKrash, but in slow motion. This time, it’s driven by legislation instead of a single netrunner.
The EU didn't completely fragment. Could just be the next step to the UK totally walling itself off from the world.
I struggle to understand, why do those sites block uk users? Are there really any "international regulations" that demand that if you don't want to comply with whatever arbitrary rules some country set, you should stop serving users from that country?
The UK law says anyone found noncompliant will owe 10% of GLOBAL REVENUE in fines.
So companies don't even want to deal with that bullshit