Comment on Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Practically speaking, that means that people and organisations running a Matrix server with open registration must verify the ages of users in countries which require it.
So if I just host my account on a home server on my raspberry pi, then I don’t have to age verify? I see. And I can still invite friends and family, I just can’t open up registration to the general public? I see.
conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 3 days ago
Until the other penny drops and makes federation impossible: making it so users on other instances are treated as your users if they interact with your instance. If such a law was introduced I’d imagine they’d carve out an exemption for e-mail since that would cause utter chaos.
deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
So basically, all the actually free and impactful social media infrastructure gets moved to a country that doesn’t obey foreign laws. What a victory for western hegemony.