My friend got this when she tried to view a Reddit post about a dental issue that got marked as NSFW
We live in the UK. She didn't go any further than this. I got her to download TOR and use the "old.Reddit" trick to bypass this so it was only mildly infuriating for her in the end
Because Lemmy is mostly just a political soapbox, there's not enough actual non-political content.
post some non political content then. encourage others to.
Having apolitical fun over in !selfhosted@lemmy.world 😁
Edit: !imsorryjon@lemmy.world & !imaginarydragons@leminal.space look apolitical to me, too
Would you rather have a place where you can't talk about it or else you get banned and any dissent is killed and banned and it's slowly getting worse day by day?
Or a foss freedom free structure platform where people can ACTUALLY talk about what's on their mind? Hmmmm?
Sounds like you have some privileges you maybe need to realize you have.
If there was some decent political discussion I wouldn't mind it as much
The problem is that people here can't stand to see anything they might disagree with.
Politics, tech, and Star Trek are the only three topics on Lemmy in any significant numbers, and even tech is politics half the time. The gaming communities are mostly politics about gaming, the porn communities are mostly dead, and forget anything more specific (other than Trek of course.)
Christ. Stop using fucking reddit already
We would love to, if not for the accumulated knowledge which can't be (easily) found elsewhere.
To be fair it's about the new UK nanny dictatorship law.
In theory lemmy should do the same and the UK government could sue and block access of any lemmy instance not following their ludicrous laws.
The problem is that the vast majority of content and activity is on the more normie side of the web.
People still use X more than BlueSky or Mastodon, after all.
It's where the porn is. Is my hypothesis.
Honestly Lemmy gets mentally draining, constant political drama that is guaranteed to lean left, barely any non-partisan or neutral discussions happen here and god forbid anyone say anything that can be seen as conservative because a barrage of insults are certain to come your way.
While I support the Lemmy project there are quite a few communities that I had subscribed to on Reddit that are missing here.
something tells me you whining about not having enough conservative propaganda on a site, that wants nothing to do with it, go back to reddit.
I had to make an account that had no news and tried to limit anything that could regularly get too political for mental health
There are orders of magnitude difference in the severity.
Lemmy sucks it just sucks different, its the photo negative of truth social and anyone who thinks that this place isnt just a different echo chamber is deluded.
No matter what happens, I always expect Lemmy to have the worse possible take.
I also don't like that politics seems to spill into every community
Reddit needs a better tagging system than just NSFW. It was pointless having a filter when you don't subscribe to any porn subreddits and all the ones you are subscribed to don't allow porn in the first place. It's only natural people started using NSFW for other things, most notably spoilers, which I believe they've added in recent years. If you had the filter enabled, you ended up missing out on content.
“Estimate age from selfie”?! Wtf have we become…
When I was 14, I looked like I was 20. When I was 20, I looked like I was 35. When I was 35, I looked like I was 50. You can’t determine someone’s actual age from a fucking photo. Jesus.
Am 45. Constantly get told by 20 somethings that I look 26-28. I still get carded.....
When I was working at a local supermarket, we had the instructions to explicitly ask anyone for ID that we deemed 40 or younger, when they tried to buy tobacco or alcohol. For that exact reason.
Reddit doesn't really care; they're going to do the bare minimum legally so they can feed more ads and get more clicks.
Just send them a random selfie from the internet, no?
You nees to do a video looking left, right, saying some numbers. The companies that do the verification are owned by Peter thiell and co
I have perpetually looked like I’m 12 since 2008. That’s the most common number people always give me when they guess my age. I’m so sure an AI would somehow guess correctly.
Can’t have kids looking at teeth! Next thing you know, they’ll want to become, forgive me for this, dentists.
That's a cavity in the law right there. Guess they don't want us to brace ourselves for the harsh realities of molars online 😂
"You're a rabid anti-dentite!"
Rofl what a piece of piss website
Fun fact: I can't see the screenshot as I'm in the UK and your instance has taken the maximally paranoid literal meaning of the OSA and blocked access just in case anything's accidentally not flagged as NSFW.
The idiots here are your lawmakers and their supporters.
https://www.torproject.org/download/
Don't forget to use obfs4 bridges
I wouldn't bother with bridges honestly
If anything use snowflakes
taken the maximally paranoid literal meaning
Them people won't get hung on a technicality. You have to be nuts not to be paranoid these days.
With how the law is written, if you think anyone might ever make a mistake (likely), think the government might ever bother going through the hassle of enforcing it (probably less likely if you're not running a big website), and don't have loads of spare money to pay huge fines with or to pay an age verification service with (likely), then blocking the UK is the only way to be compliant. It doesn't require a technicality. The law just doesn't have any leeway for honest minor mistakes or small hobbyist websites.
At least on lemmy we can just block instances that do idiotic things like that and still use the rest of the service
This sounds more like a "fuck UK age restriction laws" not reddit.
The UK's age restriction laws online are now enforced under the Online Safety Act (OSA), which requires online platforms to verify the age of users before they access categories of "harmful" content, including pornography and content related to self-harm or eating disorders. Websites, apps, and services hosting such content must implement robust age checks, with platforms facing significant fines or blocking if they fail to comply. Methods for age verification can include facial age estimation, ID scanning, or credit card checks.
Methods for age verification can include facial age estimation
Can't that be easily bypassed by using an older person for the selfie shot?
They did not call out the true mofivation of lawmakers so they are complicit.
Reddit isn't worth it any more IMO, It's all just downvoting and moaning over everything. Yes that happens here but at least people seem to talk more.
Even worse, it's all just corporate and nation-state shill accounts. They're the only ones willing to put up with all the bullshit required to post.
I know they say half of Reddit is fake but I’m willing to bet it’s more, they can’t be be real people with some of the stuff they come out with.
Left 2 1/2 years ago, whenever I'm forced back because of some tech question I see the constant anger and anxiety in the comments. It may be smaller here but goddamn if it's not more pleasant
It as way more interesting content than Lemmy
Once more Reddit! Yea!!! Just delete your account and move along.
I was banned 5 days ago for 6 days. Can I be strong enough not to go back? Please give me the strength to stay away.
I got a 3 day ban, 2nd offence, on my 6th account, after the 3-day ban I abandon the account.
Only took 6 weeks this time and I was watching myself. They have dishonest moderation At Site wide level and I do not want to use it at all either, unless maybe two Shuffle people to the fediverse.
I'm not gonna lie, I visit Reddit too, but without an account and in private, for 3 and only communities. Most of my time is Lemmy. You can start slowly like I do. People use to complain about dead niche communities here, but no one contributes like some users do every day here. Be the change and help communities grow, so you don't have to go back to Reddit.
I would - if Reddit would allow me to log in.
This is a job for Norman Reedus
Oi mate! Ya got a loicense fer dat dental advice?
redlib?
I was gonna say the same
You could use redlib.catsarch.com or redlib.lesbnyan.top
Shit like this is why I'm using a VPN
They got you covered, their network security will ban you and block you from access.
Remember when reddit was about being anonymous?
As a person who uses a VPN - what?!
Do I need to fuck around the UK servers for a bit to get this feature?
Of fuckin' course they do. Fuckin' reddit.
I miss old reddit. It's why I hang out on here.
Reddit bans a lot of IP ranges belonging to popular VPNs.
Cant see that picture as it's blocked in the UK.
Well, was it a photo of an adult tooth or a baby tooth? Adult teeth are too mature for the younguns.
Simple delete Reddit
If she replaces "www.reddit" with "old.reddit" too?
Edit: fuckit. How to disable linkifying?
Upload a random selfie?
it's not an image, they ask for live camera feed where you turn your head to the side to make sure you exist in 3d and stuff
lol wtf!
I went to use Marketplace last year which meant signing into my old FB account for the first time since like 2013, even though I barely used it before that. Turns out it had been hacked at some point in the last decade and I had to upload a bunch of pics and ID stuff to get it back with a 48 hr review time or something...
Ooooooor... Just made a new account.
There was less important dt on that account then there was me giving Meta my latest update on where I am in life now.
Edit: Actually, just remembered, that old account a friend got my phone and changed all my details. I still get happy birthday messages in April because family get alerted, know I don't have FB, and send an SMS. No, I was not born in April. I assume I'm still in a "It's complicated" relationship as well.
I wonder if it could be fooled with video clips.
Facebook's doing this too iirc
What about using lynx or eww?
Actually in France they have that too, right ?
Yeah, dental issue. Sure.
1st mistake was using reddit. 2nd mistake was not using vpn.