There's a big difference. Name and email fields were agreed upon by the community itself because they might be useful. This is not decided by the community, it's enforced. What if the law asked for a mandatory "skin colour" field? Yeah no problem, right? let's comply, after all we can put any colour we like there.

But we must look not just at what's happening now, we must look at what happens later. What if the next law enforces actual 3rd-party age verification? "It shouldn't be a problem for you Linux people, you already have an API in place after all".

[–] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

What if the next law enforces actual 3rd-party age verification?

You complain to your lawmakers and make them change the law.
Shitting on systemd or the maintainers does exactly nothing