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So. What Am I getting banned?
I'm calling the police.
Why would you ever admit your age online?
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?
lemm.ee allow 16+ year old users.
Should be fine, then. You're on .ee not .world, they're not going to vet your account for age ;)
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.
Don't be a huge dick, and don't be racist/anything-phobic.
I leaved Reddit because of this. And I choose Lemmy over other Social Media app to ignore this. I can safely say I am not. I don't even joke about it like some edgy teenager thinking saying N-Word is fucking cool or saying Hitler was a good person and everyone should do it too. Or Hating LGBTQ person.
You're a cool poster
That doesn't make sense. Iirc, lemmy.world doesn't host any of your content or manages your account, it simply just displays it.
This can get a bit complicated with federation. This community is hosted on LW. I am accessing it via sopuli.xyz, and you via feddit.uk. All (presumably) have full bidirectional federation with each other.
When I hit send, this message will go to Sopuli's outbox, which will then sync to LW for this community. At that point, this post will live on LW's servers. Anyone accessing LW directly can see it, even if Sopuli were to go down. Later (probably less than a minute), LW will sync to Feddit.uk, at which point you will be able to see it.
Note that this is for text posts only. There have been some changes around images and video, both for bandwidth and liability reasons.
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.
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.
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.
is this like traveling to another country where the drinking age is lower
No, it's like a 19 year old being on a conference call with Americans having a beer and Americans telling him he can't because in America the law is 21