Fediverse
Federated universe is a decentralized, federated social media network that is interoperable with each other by using ActivityPub protocol.
Rules
1. English only
Title and associated content has to be in English.
2. Respectful communication
All communication has to be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
3. Inclusivity
Everyone is welcome here regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
4. Ad hominem attacks
Any kind of personal attacks are expressly forbidden. If you can't argue your position without attacking a person's character, you already lost the argument.
5. Off-topic tangents
Stay on topic. Keep it relevant.
6. Instance rules may apply
If something is not covered by community rules, but are against lemmy.zip instance rules, they will be enforced.
Interesting links
- https://fediverse.party/ - list of Fediverse platforms
- https://joinfediverse.wiki/ - Fediverse wiki
- https://fedi.tips/ - tips and guides about Fediverse
If someone is interested in moderating this community, message @[email protected].
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That's in fact not how the Fediverse work. Remote users aren't subjected to other instances' Tos, that would be a legal nightmare. You're only subjected to the TOS of the server that host your account.
The kid didn't break .world TOS because he didn't join the server as a minor nor did he pretend to be an adult in order to join.
.world admins broke it the moment they didn't use the tools available to limit and cut federation accordingly with servers that allow minors in or that otherwise allow content agains their TOS.
If .world wants to pretend teens don't access the internet is their responsibility to blacklist and whitelist accordingly in order to defederate from intences that allow teenagers to join.
It's not the job of common user, especially not of remote users, to do the job of moderating a server, to decide which servers federates with. No matter if rule three before the no minors thing basically says "we won't do our job, you are on you your own", that would still only apply to direct users, accounts hosted on the server and not to remote users.
Adding to all that, there's no reason to block minors from accessing the site other than hatred towards teenagers; content that could be dangerous for them is also against . world TOS.
If that type of content in practice is allowed on the server, once again, the admins aren't doing their job and are the first ones not upholding their own TOS
Garbage previously addressed.
A TOS is not some serious contract. It's a notice. 'By using this site, you agree to...' and any site has carte blanche to put whatever they want, to decide they don't want you using that site. To whatever extent you're 'using' LW by being on a federated instance, LW has rescinded that, for this user. Whoop de shit. His local account is fine, other instances don't care.
You will inevitably catch hands from one cagey instance or other for completely stupid reasons. Or at least from crank moderators, drunk off the tiniest mote of power. That's all that's happening here.
Citing the TOS linked at the bottom instead of the rules in the sidebar makes no difference.