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got the notification to verify my age when trying to access NSFW posts or profiles already for a few weeks now, but as of today my whole account is blocked unless I verify. I guess that's it then. Based in Austria btw, so there is no specific law in place that forces Reddit to implement this and I will definetly not give my personal information to Persona, a company that belongs to Peter Thiels Palantir group.
That's why i started using Lemmy
Welcome to lemmy!
01/01/1901
Get with the times, grandpa
01/01/1969
Yours, too?! Crazy!
Eventually you'll die of old age before you can finger scroll all the way up on wheel from the current year.
That's obviously wrong.
You think that, but scrolling all the way down gets increasingly longer faster than you think.
Sorry, no, I mean like "that comment is from user obviously wrong."
No that's a common misconception, it's spelled O'bviouslywrong, an old family name. Computers just hate symbols.
is it reddit doing something drastic recently? seen an uptick .
they are continuing to digg their own grave.
They overextended their shaft and the balloon popped. 👻
you need to take a photo of your balls to use reddit now and new accounts cannot login to old reddit as this feature is now restricted to only existing accounts that are older
Even my old account isn't working on old anymore. Except on my phone for some reason (possibly just haven't logged back into it on that since whatever changed). Makes it really easy not to hang around on that site after reading whatever drags me there in the first place.
It's not consistent, I switched to an old dormant account that have not been used at all in at least a year and it went on old fine.
It's better here anyway. Spez has banned everyone and there's only bots left.
I already made this account a while ago, but never really got into Lemmy so much, since it's so damn hard to post videos here - that is the main reason I still used Reddit more - you can just drop videos there without having to use other video platforms that require you to make an account too,...
debatable that it's better here, the ideal is to use nothing.
sure, it's a lot less fashy on lemmy, but goddamn there are some shockingly dense motherfuckers on this website that are worse than redditors. the top comment on basically every article posted to lemmy is someone aggressively and angrily asking a deeply ignorant rhetorical question for attention, and it's usually answered by the article. at least reddit sometimes has a decent comment at the top.
i swear half of lemmy is just people going "i literally don't understand this simple thing and it's also the stupidest thing i've ever heard" when in reality it's just a bunch of people inside of a social bubble that don't understand the actual world around them, like, at all. and i don't mean just politically, i mean generally.
never going back to reddit but there are just so many shamefully stupid people on lemmy, it's grating.
Better late then never. Welcome to the party.
I didn’t think there was anyone left on Reddit but bots
The oldest redditors got shadow banned because their posts were too valuable to the IPO to show up as blocked or deleted user (the story varries, but my friend ended up getting banned for joking about putting a lock on one of those uhauls full of proud boys (back when they were renting uhauls before Uhaul said they couldn't anymore)
Those of us here originally, are the ones who deleted their accounts, contrary to what reddit believed would happen.
I know at least one of you will read this, and I am here to receive a powerful high five.
I assume they only require people to verify, and they let the bots roam freely without any supervision or am I wrong and it will remove bots from Reddit?
I will not play games that require tpm and secure boot, and I will not use software that requires any sort of identity verification to use. the internet is simply a tool for entertainment for most of my uses, communication is optional.
It's always interesting to see what it takes for someone to leave reddit. It wasn't all the bullshit before, but this is was over the line for this user. How much more can they keep getting away with before a tipping point? The standards people have today are so eroded.
The last straw for me was getting rid of sorting by Hot on my main feed, effectively making it useless. I don't want to sort by Best that shows posts from days ago, get that Facebook shit out of here. Also there was a new tab that interspersed "recommended posts" in your main feed. It's an option now but I doubt it would be in the future. The point of having a curated feed is to see shit you're subscribed to, not whatever engagement slop is on r/popular.
For me it was new reddit, saw what was coming and spent a lot less time there (yes I used old mode still), then the API changes and mass banning of subreddits sealed the deal. Never returned.
on mobile they are far more intrusive, when you backspace they reload the page, and sends you to the top of the feed on old mobile, and zooms in for no reason, its designed to make old reddit as unpleasant as possible so you are forced to use the new reddit UI, which is worst, because in the newer one, it eventually slows the loading page for so long you have to close the browser to reset it. they eventually want people to use the APP, so they can datamine your device as well.
I miss some of the people on Reddit, but I don't miss Reddit.
In time, they'll appear here (or in similar places).
I'm never going back.
they are too forgettable to memorable, the only ones i missed were the ones in a niche sub, now defunct.
Honestly, a VPN is a good investment in your online safety anyway and would bypass this age verification bullshit. We have it in Australia too. Philippines don't.
You need to create an alias and not forget it, so you can use a completely different "person" on these shitty sites. I've got a dozen email addresses with names, birthplaces, dates, etc. never know who I am.