On the one hand fuck reddit and I'll gladly let spez shoot himself in the dick. On the other hand lemmy has been so cool these past years with actual discussions and valuable information. I'd hate for it to degrade into a brain dead string of reaction memes due to a reddit exodus.
I would switch to routing everything through tor. And if a service blocks that, I'll stop using that service. However, I'm also at an age where I dream of living alone in the canadian wilderness, reading books until the next long winter takes me. So you shouldn't listen to my advice if you value your digital life.
Your thinking is too complicated. There are open source, trusted and vetted apps that can verify age without breaking privacy. No need for antiquated revivals. The question is, will those apps be used. The answer is no, since age verification is all about breaking privacy. Which means your idea wouldn't help either.
I don't use tor much. My main use case at the moment is using the tor browser for all the sites that block me because I use a vpn. Works most of the time. I have a small list of onion sites that are only accessible through tor but it's more of "break glass in case of privacy emergency" type of thing.
No they haven't, they added a field where a user can store their birthday, as required by law in parts of the US.
That's an obvious foot in the door. The law is going to get worse. And we users expect the services we've been trusting all this years to see that too and act accordingly in response. As long as the critiscism remains civil, it's perfectly valid.
Do you want linux get banned in California?
There is no single Linux. Each distro should have the agency to decide for themselves how or if they want to operate in California.
Not that old yet, but I'm currently finishing The Alters. It's a beautiful, atmospheric survival game with a relatively simple gameplay loop but intriguing background story with branching decisions. I'd say play it once for the story.
On the one hand fuck reddit and I'll gladly let spez shoot himself in the dick. On the other hand lemmy has been so cool these past years with actual discussions and valuable information. I'd hate for it to degrade into a brain dead string of reaction memes due to a reddit exodus.