We live in the UK. She didn’t go any further than this. I got her to download TOR and use the “old.Reddit” trick to bypass this so it was only mildly infuriating for her in the end
Once more Reddit! Yea!!! Just delete your account and move along.
I would - if Reddit would allow me to log in.
I was banned 5 days ago for 6 days. Can I be strong enough not to go back? Please give me the strength to stay away.
I got a 3 day ban, 2nd offence, on my 6th account, after the 3-day ban I abandon the account.
Only took 6 weeks this time and I was watching myself. They have dishonest moderation At Site wide level and I do not want to use it at all either, unless maybe two Shuffle people to the fediverse.
They have dishonest moderation
The mods are also unaccountable. They can (and do) simply ignore your DMs asking for details or reconsideration of your ban. And even if they do respond, the reasoning will be a short gibberish response that you cannot appeal.
Also many will remove your comments without telling you, it appears to be posted, I learned reveddit showed you what was removed.
But yeah mods work for free so allowing their petty tyranny is a selling point of the gig, not sure how lemmy works, did see one dude that said banned user arguing with people on another instance.
The audience over there is definitely a lot less intelligent than we have over here. And the bots & reposts & even bots COMMENTING are probably an overwhelming majority of the audience over there. It’s sick & pointless & a waste of time & I must break the addiction.
I’m not gonna lie, I visit Reddit too, but without an account and in private, for 3 and only communities. Most of my time is Lemmy. You can start slowly like I do. People use to complain about dead niche communities here, but no one contributes like some users do every day here. Be the change and help communities grow, so you don’t have to go back to Reddit.
Christ. Stop using fucking reddit already
We would love to, if not for the accumulated knowledge which can’t be (easily) found elsewhere.
To be fair it’s about the new UK nanny dictatorship law.
In theory lemmy should do the same and the UK government could sue and block access of any lemmy instance not following their ludicrous laws.
Honestly Lemmy gets mentally draining, constant political drama that is guaranteed to lean left, barely any non-partisan or neutral discussions happen here and god forbid anyone say anything that can be seen as conservative because a barrage of insults are certain to come your way.
While I support the Lemmy project there are quite a few communities that I had subscribed to on Reddit that are missing here.
I had to make an account that had no news and tried to limit anything that could regularly get too political for mental health
I have a good word filter list that seems to do the trick. Apart from when the titles are “things am I right?” And the description is “this ^”, no word filter will work on that. Wish there was a politics tag.
No matter what happens, I always expect Lemmy to have the worse possible take.
I also don’t like that politics seems to spill into every community
This is the case on reddit too. Politics creeps into everything.
I also don’t like that politics seems to spill into every community
Yes! This right bloody here, not everything needs to be political!
Unfortunately, everything is affected by politics.
By politics they mean anything that’s left-wing. Right-wing stuff like causal racism isn’t seen as political since it’s so normalized in America.
It’s weird that you complain about what you subject yourself to, that’s a sin according to the satanic Bible
Lemmy sucks it just sucks different, its the photo negative of truth social and anyone who thinks that this place isnt just a different echo chamber is deluded.
Bro, these are real people with real opinions and you’re just shitting on all of that like it’s nothing, and the truth social comparison, jump up your own ass
Because Lemmy is mostly just a political soapbox, there’s not enough actual non-political content.
post some non political content then. encourage others to.
Having apolitical fun over in [email protected] 😁
Edit: [email protected] & [email protected] look apolitical to me, too
I love it here but you gotta admit its like 50/50 politics and programming. It’s just like old old reddit
I want the Reddit from 5 years ago
Politics, tech, and Star Trek are the only three topics on Lemmy in any significant numbers, and even tech is politics half the time. The gaming communities are mostly politics about gaming, the porn communities are mostly dead, and forget anything more specific (other than Trek of course.)
1st mistake was using reddit. 2nd mistake was not using vpn.
Reddit needs a better tagging system than just NSFW. It was pointless having a filter when you don’t subscribe to any porn subreddits and all the ones you are subscribed to don’t allow porn in the first place. It’s only natural people started using NSFW for other things, most notably spoilers, which I believe they’ve added in recent years. If you had the filter enabled, you ended up missing out on content.
You could use redlib.catsarch.com or redlib.lesbnyan.top
lesbnyan.top
I don’t understand fancy tech lingo and that sounds vaguely kinky.
It is.
It’s a portmanteau of lesbian and nyan.
Wow and you just taught me the definition of “portmanteau” in context too. I never really knew what that word meant but it sounds like a big fancy wooden piece of furniture.
It’s a piece of luggage actually. Fun fact Portmanteau is itself a portmanteau of porter (to carry) and manteau (mantle).
That IS a fun fact 😃 you just had me go down a 5 minute rabbit hole.
"Just how did a 19th century French suitcase come to represent a unique category of words? It was Lewis Carroll that provided the connection. In his children’s book Through the Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty explains that a portmanteau is a word with two meanings packed into one.
“In truth, a “portmanteau” is itself a portmanteau! Its name is derived from combining the French words porter (meaning “to carry”) and manteau (meaning “cloak”)."
It’s also one of those.
Can’t have kids looking at teeth! Next thing you know, they’ll want to become, forgive me for this, dentists.
“Estimate age from selfie”?! Wtf have we become…
When I was 14, I looked like I was 20. When I was 20, I looked like I was 35. When I was 35, I looked like I was 50. You can’t determine someone’s actual age from a fucking photo. Jesus.
Am 45. Constantly get told by 20 somethings that I look 26-28. I still get carded…
My 25 year old SO got carded while my 19 year old brother wasn’t questioned when we were at a liquor store. I think because my brother had a big beard they assumed he must be old lol.
This sounds more like a “fuck UK age restriction laws” not reddit.
The UK’s age restriction laws online are now enforced under the Online Safety Act (OSA), which requires online platforms to verify the age of users before they access categories of “harmful” content, including pornography and content related to self-harm or eating disorders. Websites, apps, and services hosting such content must implement robust age checks, with platforms facing significant fines or blocking if they fail to comply. Methods for age verification can include facial age estimation, ID scanning, or credit card checks.
Methods for age verification can include facial age estimation
Can’t that be easily bypassed by using an older person for the selfie shot?
They did not call out the true mofivation of lawmakers so they are complicit.
What about using lynx or eww?
Upload a random selfie?
it’s not an image, they ask for live camera feed where you turn your head to the side to make sure you exist in 3d and stuff
I wonder if it could be fooled with video clips.
Probably not, as it asks you to get closer and farther, but with how AI is, it’s only a matter of time until someone can get around that. The ID though I’m not so sure about
How would they handle sending them a faked driver’s license? I doubt they have access to the national database needed to verify anything on the pic of the license.
Well, was it a photo of an adult tooth or a baby tooth? Adult teeth are too mature for the younguns.
