Maybe the whole age verification thing is keeping people offline.
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BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I honestly think that the whole internet is in decline.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Missing the Internet of my youth makes me feel older than almost anything else.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Fewer things are sadder than the reality of the Internet compared to what we envisioned early on.
BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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.
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 17 hours ago
UK user here, several big lemmy instances are unavailable for me apart from when I’m on erm holiday
artiman@piefed.social 1 day ago
no
Skavau@piefed.social 1 day ago
That's just UK currently
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Right, but I’m assuming there’s a nontrivial number of UK users.
Skavau@piefed.social 1 day 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 day ago
I was just thinking everything seems to either be in decline, stagnation, or regression.