How will Australia's ban on youth access to social media affect instances hosted in Australia? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Do they have any rule that says you need a minimum number of users on a site to fall under the law?

If servers of someinstance.co.au fine if they move to hosting in Finland?

It just feels like a nightmare.

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[-] fancy-straw-simple@piefed.ca 18 points 2 months ago

Oh, apparently their attempt at following the law is pretty ridiculous. https://aussie.zone/post/27246692

[-] shems@piefed.social 18 points 2 months ago

I’d say their attempt is actually better than what the government came up with. I also thought the idea of chatting with a bot that guesses your age was pretty funny.

[-] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

pretty ridiculous

In the good way, yes. Who was it the admin of a Lemmy instance, I think, who said he would receive alcohol as a form of ID verification because to even acquire it legally in the first place you have to be of age, anyway? That's pretty much golden and incentivizes the local economy!