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So. What Am I getting banned?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 37 minutes ago

Easy there, Karen.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Why would you ever admit your age online?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (4 children)

I'm not 23. Nobody likes you when you're 23.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago

And you still act like you’re in freshman year

[–] JadenSmith 2 points 27 minutes ago* (last edited 26 minutes ago)

They only want you when you're 17, when you're 21 you're no fun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

23yr old women are quite popular.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Oh, ok. I'll be sure to stop using when I'm 134 years old. Just to rule out the last 17 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Hi 92, nice to meet you. How old ya

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Imagine this, but with email.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago

This meme could have been an email!

[–] [email protected] 54 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

And despite how simple it is people still find new and interesting ways to be bigoted. It’s impressive really

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

What makes you think it’s most of the time?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

lemm.ee allow 16+ year old users.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I believe the most an admin can do is block you from their own instance (e.g. lemmy.world banning you from lemmy.world communities), they don't own your account on lemm.ee so they can't ban your account from accessing the comms they don't control, and lemm.ee has no reason to ban you.

Tagging @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yep, i have no power outside my instance. However sag has been banned by the LW admins :(

There's a YPTB post about it, you can chime in. It's outrageous honestly, sag is a very good poster/user, maybe they can be pressured into reversing the ban.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Ah thanks.

YPTB

~~What's this?~~ ah just remembered, /c/ YePowerTrippinBastards

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago

You're a cool poster

[–] [email protected] 75 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago

I think you've pretty much nailed it. KFC can't ban you from buying a Burguer King that McDonalds is secondhand selling.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Bans are for adults, you gets sent to your room.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 hours ago

After you take out the trash.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

"safely" as in are too small for the regulatory bodies to care. Takes one report though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 hours ago

It's legal boilerplate.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 hours ago (20 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 hours ago

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.

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