Maybe the whole age verification thing is keeping people offline.
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BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I honestly think that the whole internet is in decline.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Missing the Internet of my youth makes me feel older than almost anything else.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Fewer things are sadder than the reality of the Internet compared to what we envisioned early on.
BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
It’s perhaps the greatest tragedy of my lifetime, I’m truly not exaggerating. We went from the free sharing of the majority of human knowledge to forcing people to sell their souls for YouTube money.
CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’m not in a country with the age verification thing, but has it been turned on for Lemmy servers?
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I don’t know, but I was thinking it might be causing people to be less online generally, even if Lemmy itself isn’t a problem. I wonder what the Lemmy NSFW people are doing.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I don’t know of any servers that have started to verify ages, but some have started to geoblock countries whose laws require it.
artiman@piefed.social 1 month ago
no
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 month ago
UK user here, several big lemmy instances are unavailable for me apart from when I’m on erm holiday
Skavau@piefed.social 1 month ago
That's just UK currently
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Right, but I’m assuming there’s a nontrivial number of UK users.
Skavau@piefed.social 1 month ago
Well there's an amount, but it wouldn't have much impact on the Fediverse as there's no age-ID here.
cmbabul@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was just thinking everything seems to either be in decline, stagnation, or regression.