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this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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I see a lot of people freaking out about this, but adding this as an optional field was the right call.
This way, distros can choose for themselves whether or not they want to use it during account creation.
optional sounds reasonable now. its gets its foot in the door. it sounds like compromise. but then, other things start depending on it. and if you dont comply, they just dont work. its a dependancy. break that dependency become incompatible.
this is not solving any problem. Sites already have the “are you 18” thing that says you aren’t allowed to know about naked people doing naked people things that we all ignored as teenagers and grew up just fine.
At least someone gets it.
It's kinda crazy how many people here claim to use linux or even actually use linux, but apparently don't know what the operating system does and what the system manager does.