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Age Verification On Lemmy (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've seen multiple requests for nsfw lemmy communities like reddit has. I live in Germany, and I think you are required to verify that the users that see porn content are above the age of 18. Does Lemmy has or plan to have a feature for that? Maybe this should be an issue on github?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

like others said, there are downsides to every approach. Browser based would probably be the most reliable though, the bar for going around it would require a separate device or someone knowing how to install a completely different OS, under the age of 18, without their parents knowledge.

Which of course I knew how to do back in the days of Windows XP, but again that's a very high bar for most people.

I can see Lemmy taking an official approach of "We'll wait for that" because otherwise it's scanning IDs on one end of the spectrum and the other end is a button that says "Yeah I'm totally over 18"