Maybe the whole age verification thing is keeping people offline.
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BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I honestly think that the whole internet is in decline.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Missing the Internet of my youth makes me feel older than almost anything else.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Fewer things are sadder than the reality of the Internet compared to what we envisioned early on.
BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
I’m not in a country with the age verification thing, but has it been turned on for Lemmy servers?
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
no
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 3 weeks ago
UK user here, several big lemmy instances are unavailable for me apart from when I’m on erm holiday
Skavau@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
That's just UK currently
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Right, but I’m assuming there’s a nontrivial number of UK users.
Skavau@piefed.social 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
I was just thinking everything seems to either be in decline, stagnation, or regression.