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So. What Am I getting banned?
young padawan, the first lesson you ever learn on the internet is never admit your age until it no longer matters
I'm calling the police.
Easy there, Karen.
Why would you ever admit your age online?
Eh, I don't really see an issue with it at my age, but I guess for younger people it could be bad. I'm in my 40s now, but aside from producing some data to be mined, I don't see how people knowing that hurts me.
I'm not 23. Nobody likes you when you're 23.
And you still act like you’re in freshman year
They only want you when you're 17, when you're 21 you're no fun.
23yr old women are quite popular.
Quite
I'm 92.
If 16 is too young for Lemmy, 92 is unfortunately too old.
I'm sorry, but if you can't use it during the first 17 years of your life, you shouldn't be allowed to use it during the last 17 years either!!!!!!!11 Rules are rules...
Oh, ok. I'll be sure to stop using when I'm 134 years old. Just to rule out the last 17 years.
Hi 92, nice to meet you. How old ya
Imagine this, but with email.
This meme could have been an email!
This particular thread is hosted on lemmy.world and you must be 18+ to access it.
Nah, admins only care about their own instance. So a LW admin would only care about underage LW users.
Admins don't have the time to moderate for other instances. I'm already busy enough with dbzer0, lemm.ee's business is theirs. (as long as they're not posting CSAM or scams)
edit: I should mention that you still have to follow the COCs of instances, but most of them can be boiled down to: Don't be a huge dick, and don't be racist/anything-phobic.
And despite how simple it is people still find new and interesting ways to be bigoted. It’s impressive really
As long as all those people getting banned were actually for those reasons...
Most of the time admins and mods just ban you because they don't like you even though that's not a rule.
What makes you think it’s most of the time?
Not really sure how that works with federation. You're not "using" lemmy.world, you're using lemm.ee, which has a copy of content from lemmy.world.
I think you've pretty much nailed it. KFC can't ban you from buying a Burguer King that McDonalds is secondhand selling.
Why is Kit on instance X gatekeeping a user in instance Y from accessing a community on instance Z?
Gives me vibes of old man yelling at kids to stop having fun.
Bans are for adults, you gets sent to your room.
After you take out the trash.
No one under 18 years of age or under the regulated minimum age defined by your local law (whichever is higher), is allowed to use or access the website.
https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/#introduction
Curious choice
Dealing with data protection laws surrounding children is a MASSIVE pain. Most Lemmy servers ignore the GDPR safely, but ignoring COPPA is a bit harder. And that doesn't even take into account the recent rise of laws blocking teenagers from social media, with varying ages and consent laws.
"safely" as in are too small for the regulatory bodies to care. Takes one report though.
Basically. Although, it kind of depends on what a server gets reported on first. If it's just something like account deletion or data exports, that can be done manually, just not on scale.
It's legal boilerplate.
I’m too old for this to matter, but is somebody really expected check the ToS of the server the community they’re posting in is on, or is this just a CYA kind of thing?
Federation makes this untenable.
Yeah just ignore and move on. They probably just put that there so they dont get sued for making porn available to minors without warning or something.