Missing the Internet of my youth makes me feel older than almost anything else.
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AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 7 months agoMaybe the whole age verification thing is keeping people offline.
BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Fewer things are sadder than the reality of the Internet compared to what we envisioned early on.
BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months 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.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I feel the same way. I was a CS major in the early 80s. I watched the internet become something amazing, and then I watched it rot. Heartbreaking.
CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I’m not in a country with the age verification thing, but has it been turned on for Lemmy servers?
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 7 months ago
UK user here, several big lemmy instances are unavailable for me apart from when I’m on erm holiday
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months 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 7 months ago
no
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 7 months 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.
Skavau@piefed.social 7 months ago
That's just UK currently
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Right, but I’m assuming there’s a nontrivial number of UK users.
Skavau@piefed.social 7 months ago
Well there's an amount, but it wouldn't have much impact on the Fediverse as there's no age-ID here.
frongt@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Therefore to comply, the server would relocate or go offline.