themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoReddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subredditsmashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square126linkfedilinkarrow-up1714file-textcross-posted to: privacy@programming.dev
arrow-up1714external-linkReddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subredditsmashable.comthemachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square126linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: privacy@programming.dev
minus-squareblackn1ght@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up65·4 days agoUnder the new UK law, lemmynsfw would also need to have some kind of age verification for UK users.
minus-square.Donuts@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up81·3 days agoThis. Can’t believe we’re seeing “lol Reddit sucks” when this is a country-wide implementation and has nothing to do with Reddit in particular.
minus-squarelolrightythen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·3 days agoYou are correct. But this doesn’t lessen the extent to which reddit sucks.
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-23 days agoOr it can just defederate from UK based instances. .zip has already been trying to figure out how to handle this law, its also UK based.
minus-squareblackn1ght@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoLemmy.zip blocks uk users on its front end but I think its contents is still federated.
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days ago.zip blocks users from the UK iirc.
Time to go to LemmyNSFW
Under the new UK law, lemmynsfw would also need to have some kind of age verification for UK users.
This. Can’t believe we’re seeing “lol Reddit sucks” when this is a country-wide implementation and has nothing to do with Reddit in particular.
So, the UK sucks.
You are correct. But this doesn’t lessen the extent to which reddit sucks.
Or it can just defederate from UK based instances.
.zip has already been trying to figure out how to handle this law, its also UK based.
Lemmy.zip blocks uk users on its front end but I think its contents is still federated.
.zip blocks users from the UK iirc.