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
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Because Lemmy is mostly just a political soapbox, there's not enough actual non-political content.
Having apolitical fun over in [email protected] 😁
Edit: [email protected] & [email protected] look apolitical to me, too
I love it here but you gotta admit its like 50/50 politics and programming. It's just like old old reddit
I want the Reddit from 5 years ago
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.
No you don't understand, they didn't say they weren't on Lemmy, they are as you clearly noticed. So they do have access to all the political discourse they want when they want it.
They said that Lemmy is too politically dominated and that some communities only live on Reddit rn.
I kinda agree, I use Lemmy 99% of the time but when a new Poe league releases the poebuildsdiscussion has interesting information about the game, not having political discourse in that community is irrelevant since that's now what's about. I'd prefer if it was here but there clearly is no interest, as a transition was attempted with the API exodus and it failed.
Yah, he is saying there isn't much variety in subject matter. Sadly I still have to go to reddit to find a lot of topics.
Reading a discussion thread about some obscure TV show that there is no communify for on Lemmy is... "privilage"?
"Anything you have access to that I don't" = "privilege"
The term has been badly abused.
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.
right wingers and the tankies are the only ones bitching about how thier political discussion isnt being discussed. i dont care either way, as long as it doesnt becomes obnoxious
I once made the mistake of saying something against Luigi and had the comments jump on me. This is as much of an echo chamber as anywhere else.
You mean there are too many people who disagree with stuff they 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.
My “whining” is because of people like /u/[email protected]. This is what makes Lemmy mentally draining, they’re hellbent on their political ideology and if you don’t conform you get ousted, fed to the fishes so to speak.
I hear you.
I'd never really encountered the nutty parts of progressive politics until coming to Lemmy. Often times you don't need to say something conservative, but merely say something that challenges a poorly conceived thought bubble and you get piled on.
There's a really strong sense of idealism here. A lot of users deal in absolutes and don't seem able to engage with the nuance of life.
As anti-establishment and highly critical of the Democratic Party I have seen the exact same thing here is on Reddit
Yeah, I just want beast mode on his ass and will probably get that comment removed. I just posted above you, but I don’t care anymore.
I had to make an account that had no news and tried to limit anything that could regularly get too political for mental health
I have a good word filter list that seems to do the trick. Apart from when the titles are "things am I right?" And the description is "this ^", no word filter will work on that. Wish there was a politics tag.
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.
Bro, these are real people with real opinions and you’re just shitting on all of that like it’s nothing, and the truth social comparison, jump up your own ass
You do realize you just proved me right.
Congrats you’re sticking in a round in a place you’re not wanted you’re clearly one in 1 million kid. Do you want to open yourself to more abuse You fucking glutton for punishment
Sheesh, you’re whipped.
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
This is the case on reddit too. Politics creeps into everything.
Yes! This right bloody here, not everything needs to be political!
Unfortunately, everything is affected by politics.
By politics they mean anything that's left-wing. Right-wing stuff like causal racism isn't seen as political since it's so normalized in America.
DING DING DING
Not really, need more popular hobby communities as they are often places that politics don't impact
It’s weird that you complain about what you subject yourself to, that’s a sin according to the satanic Bible
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.
It does need better tagging but honestly thats not the issue here. This is because of the new UK law, simple as.
Also some shitty Republican states in the US.
Why not both?
They're not mutually exclusive
True, but I dont want reddit's shitty NSFW tagging system to distract from the important issue here
“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.....
/s couldn't resist
Lol
My 25 year old SO got carded while my 19 year old brother wasn’t questioned when we were at a liquor store. I think because my brother had a big beard they assumed he must be old lol.
Yep, same. I'm not a fan of people thinking I'm not old and grumpy, but they usually find out.
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.
You know how everybody blames boomers for various things, which had nothing to do with them, they were merely victims of the capitalist corrupt systems they lived under? This is your generation's failure to address the needs of the future. Good luck.
It’s really weird for you to start flinging divisive shit at someone who wasn’t being ageist to begin with, but if you wanna fling shit, start by telling me the average age of the parliament that passed this law.
https://www.torproject.org/download/
Don't forget to use obfs4 bridges
I wouldn't bother with bridges honestly
If anything use snowflakes
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
Images should load from your local Lemmy instance right?
But checking now I see you, OP and the com are all from the same instance. So I’m confused.
No, OP is lemmings.world, not lemmy.world.
Oh shit, my bad. Was reading too fast.
But still, the image should load from your local instance right? So in that commenters case, lemmy.world right?
Edit: at least on my instance, it appears to go through a proxy on my local instance:
Do some other instances direct link images?
Proxying was added after a bunch of csam attacks, where every instance admin would have to block it themselves. Now with proxying an admin can either block it themselves or the original posting instance can block it.
Some instances use the image proxy and others don't. It seems that mine doesn't.
This sounds more like a "fuck UK age restriction laws" not reddit.
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.
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
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.
It as way more interesting content than Lemmy
Once more Reddit! Yea!!! Just delete your account and move along.
I would - if Reddit would allow me to log in.
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.
The mods are also unaccountable. They can (and do) simply ignore your DMs asking for details or reconsideration of your ban. And even if they do respond, the reasoning will be a short gibberish response that you cannot appeal.
Also many will remove your comments without telling you, it appears to be posted, I learned reveddit showed you what was removed.
But yeah mods work for free so allowing their petty tyranny is a selling point of the gig, not sure how lemmy works, did see one dude that said banned user arguing with people on another instance.
The audience over there is definitely a lot less intelligent than we have over here. And the bots & reposts & even bots COMMENTING are probably an overwhelming majority of the audience over there. It's sick & pointless & a waste of time & I must break the addiction.
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.
This is a job for Norman Reedus
Oi mate! Ya got a loicense fer dat dental advice?
You could use redlib.catsarch.com or redlib.lesbnyan.top
lesbnyan.top
I don't understand fancy tech lingo and that sounds vaguely kinky.
It is.
It's a portmanteau of lesbian and nyan.
Wow and you just taught me the definition of "portmanteau" in context too. I never really knew what that word meant but it sounds like a big fancy wooden piece of furniture.
It's a piece of luggage actually. Fun fact Portmanteau is itself a portmanteau of porter (to carry) and manteau (mantle).
That IS a fun fact 😃 you just had me go down a 5 minute rabbit hole.
"Just how did a 19th century French suitcase come to represent a unique category of words? It was Lewis Carroll that provided the connection. In his children's book Through the Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty explains that a portmanteau is a word with two meanings packed into one.
"In truth, a “portmanteau” is itself a portmanteau! Its name is derived from combining the French words porter (meaning “to carry") and manteau (meaning “cloak”)."
It's also one of those.
redlib?
I was gonna say the same
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.
Well, was it a photo of an adult tooth or a baby tooth? Adult teeth are too mature for the younguns.
Cant see that picture as it's blocked in the UK.
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.
There were some reports of people using Norman Reedus from death stranding a little while ago.
Probably not, as it asks you to get closer and farther, but with how AI is, it's only a matter of time until someone can get around that. The ID though I'm not so sure about
How would they handle sending them a faked driver's license? I doubt they have access to the national database needed to verify anything on the pic of the license.
At least at one point that worked because there was a new article about the sudden surge of popularity from a YouTube video from like 2011 of a middle aged woman looking left then right whichb had successfully fooled the system. Guessing they fixed it since.
Facebook's doing this too iirc
Simple delete Reddit
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
If she replaces "www.reddit" with "old.reddit" too?
Edit: fuckit. How to disable linkifying?
1st mistake was using reddit. 2nd mistake was not using vpn.
Yeah, dental issue. Sure.
What about using lynx or eww?
Actually in France they have that too, right ?