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Teenagers now get banned if they tell their age anyway: !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
To any teens who come across this post, do NOT admit you're underage or were underage at time of account creation anywhere, anytime for any reason
It's like Rule 1 of the internet.
Sincerely, The kids who grew alongside the internet since the 90s
I was totally above 13 or had parental consent when I went to forums in the early 2000s. I totally wasn't actually 9.
It's wild to me this concept disappeared? It's literally never been a good idea to reveal you're a minor online. The laws are against you. Companies don't want to deal with a curated minor experience, even less so in the current times. If they do, you get the crappier version of things.
The worst thing to happen to the Internet is when Facebook normalized using your real name and real info online.
I agree. The main thing is teenagers wanting to discuss stuff about them, like on r/teenagers on reddit.
If it’s anything like Reddit, it would devolve into being mostly creepy adults.
Back in the days we'd get free hosting and slap phpBB on it. Run for kids by kids, no pesky adult rules!
Those were the days. No credit cards needed, no nothing, just free 50MB of Apache/MySQL/PHP4 hosting with no strings attached.
If the fediverse was a thing I'd probably have had my own instance starting age 14-15ish.
Its a shame that all "modern" forum softwares are really resource heavy.
Duh, I was born in 1901, why do you ask?
A/S/L
14/f/under your floorboards
Translation: Either "FBI" or "40/m/under your floorboards"
No, I’m just stuck. Bring a water-based lubricant to help me come out
Sir this is a Lemmy
A/N - narnia
Authors note?
17/F/Cali
Nice one, my fed Joe
On my main account (this is a throwaway, if the username didn't already suggest that) I'm sure if you dug around enough you'd find out my age, but it would be a lot of effort.
I was -1 years old when creating this account🚬
Believe it or not BAN
Even if the instance doesn't have any rules about it?
That is not Fediverse specific. That's general internet behaviour.
even gen a probably knows that, but those that dont, they will find out the hard way
And what's the problem with that?
Laws don't currently make a concession for federated social media. If the law in an instance's jurisdiction says that users on a platform must be of a certain age, then for practical/enforcement purposes it makes no difference if they're local or federated.
FWIW, I also ban people under age 18 on my instance (local and federated). Obviously I can't know everyone's age, but if someone offers it and I become aware, and it's below the minimum age set in our policy, then they're banned until they're of age - simple as that.
I'm in the US, so 13 is the minimum age by law for most services (COPPA), and there's various grumblings to increase the age specifically for social media, so I'm playing it safe with 18 which is the age you're legally considered an adult.
Considering some of the stuff that gets posted here (legitimately and via bad actors), then my legal liabilities are less as I'm going out of my way to only serve adults on the platform. Mind you, I'm running this as a hobby / volunteer and do not have a team of lawyers on hand.
Lemm.ee goes with 16, as does Blahaj.
The case linked was kind of an edge case as that user is turning 18 in a few months.
Where does .ee say they only allow 16+? couldn't find it myself.
https://lemm.ee/legal
Quoth Article 8:
The referenced point (a) is in the conditions for data processing to be lawful:
In essence: The age of consent is 16 when it comes to your personal data. A completely different question is whether lemm.ee even processes personal data, even more so in a matter that requires consent. Because unless you doxx yourself lemm.ee knows nothing more about you than your IP and, presuming best practices, only keeps limited logs around for strictly technical purposes which don't need consent. That point (a) is only one condition under which personal data can be processed, there's also b, c, d, e, and f.
...not that I'm saying that the legal notice is bad it's good. It's overzealous and overcautious going beyond the letter of the law and event intent, reaching into the fabled realms of actually giving a fuck. Like, if the law says "assault is bad" then this notice is saying "please all cuddle, ok?"
From a bit of clicking around, its linked no-where but the footer, so if you're making an account they don't tell you to read it. Easy to miss.
Meh. At least pretending to be an adult feels like a pretty low bar.
Nobody should pretend and nobody should have to li
Also, nobody should volunteer age info for no reason... Esp under age crowd. Fucking pedos everywhere
Thats why I made this post. If a teenager is on the fediverse, they will know how to evade a ban.
Makes sense!