Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining?

• BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Missing the Internet of my youth makes me feel older than almost anything else.

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  • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fewer things are sadder than the reality of the Internet compared to what we envisioned early on.

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    • 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.

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      • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• 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?

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • artiman@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    no

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  • 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

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• Skavau@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That's just UK currently

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  • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Right, but I’m assuming there’s a nontrivial number of UK users.

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    • 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.

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      • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Therefore to comply, the server would relocate or go offline.

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