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Reddit age verification for Europeans
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this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2026
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Sir, this is the fediverse .Leave reddit shit out off this platform, thank you
Not a Sir, but did you read my post?
It can be very similar to reddit in that most people will only read the title and then come to the comments, and then maybe read the content of the post. (guilty)
Some people here are still salty about Reddit. If it's integrating with Palantir tech, yeah thats a good time to jump ship. That's a very scary company.
Anyway, welcome to the fediverse! I've been enjoying Piefed instead of Lemmy because it seems to handle cross posts a lot better. They're basically the same thing and most servers offer a Lemmy and Piefed front end but you do need different accounts.
I understand the basics of the fediverse and am into it but have yet to get a hang of it myself. It's a bit annoying there are different standards which don't communicate with each other.
I have a Eurosky account but that doesn't work with Mastodon and beyond that I am not quite sure what communicates with what. Admittedly, I have not yet made too much of an effort to look into it. That's on me.
With Reddit, I understand the saltiness but at the same time - for now the larger community is there and they are no less dedicated Europeans. I've genuinely tried to get a move to Lemmy going and if anything I hope that this next step in verification through nefarious third partners might help the effort. Chat control might be another push, as it is used on US platforms while European platforms have declined to use it as well.
Dear person. Understand your point of view and can imagine your feelings about the community. However, most have been away from reddit for several years and don't want to have anything to do with it. You will certainly find a community at the fediverse where you can join,
Because of privacy issue ,I use Linux for the past 15 years , last year totally degoogled , and grapheneOs installed.
Kijk eens op piefed. Platform .
Most Redditors have yet to leave the platform; we should therefore be welcoming, listen to the reasons they have for leaving Reddit, and direct them to active communities in the Threadiverse in a manner that is more fulfilling than their Reddit experience.
There's already enough hurdles around here in terms of needing to explain the basics of federation and tankie-blocking; if the first reply a new user reads is the equivalent to 'shut up about Reddit and fit in', we aren't going to be getting very many new users.
I also appreciate the fresh user reports on Reddit.
Is there anything specifically you're curious about?
I can't check (can't even access my profile) but my memories are still fairly fresh.
I guess if you focus on just the title and the first few words it seems like a post about Reddit, but it is really about an online community being torn apart by absolutely stupid measures and the people taking the charge there not ensuring it stays together. It is a very large community of Europeans and I do think that's important to acknowledge.
Admittedly I am somewhat oddly emotional about it as it literally just happened and I lost a community I invested in and care about in a split second. This may have coloured my post a bit.
Luckily I had the foresight ensuring to have other ways of contacting the people most important to me over there.
If you have tips, recommendations, anything - I love to hear it.
That feels a lot more welcoming, thanks.
I only used Reddit because of the European community, and by extension the non-US American community. As I said in the post, for now it is by far the largest online community of its kind and genuinely interesting conversations are happening there. European politics but also a strong buyfromEU community.
It's a difficult issue because many in the community want to move but no one wants to make the move because a lack of community. It could be coordinated and I have tried to encourage people to do so, but sadly no success so far. And if people drop off, like I have, it becomes difficult to find them back.
Little over a year ago I made the swap to Linux myself and been actively degoogling. I went for Proton and Libre Office. Youtube and Android are the big issues. There simply is no equivalent to Youtube (in content at least) but I use Firefox + uBlock or on my phone Morphe which makes it sort of usable.
I've looked into Graphene and other options but I struggle being able to use regular apps, banking most notable. For now I decided to leave it but when the time comes to replace my phone I will do everything I can to ditch Android (and obviously iOS is out of the question too).
I've heard of piefed, but let me take it slow one platform at a time unless you have a specific reason to suggest it?
Dear person,
I vaguely remember a community that was started in the Kortrijk Belgium area, does it still exist?
Piefed map will not work at the moment, can't check it.
Bank apps ,check them on graphene site ,2 out off my 3 bancapps works fine on graphene
You can just call me lieven?
I have no specific links to Belgium but if it's a nice community I might?
You should block the term reddit in your client instead of making this pointless comment.
The problem is new people show up, see it's not active, and then make a post about it instead of a normal post to fix the problem.
It's learned helplessness.
They don't want to create content for themselves and others, they just want to complain there's not enough content.
If mods don't remove that types of post, that becomes the most frequent topic of discussion, accomplishes nothing, and makes people who stumble in not stick around or even not create an account in the first.
These posts don't just not help, they exacerbate the problem these new OPs keep making.
And on a simpler point like you said, no one that's really left reddit cares what's happening on reddit, that's why we left
Yet, I am in a few European communities I tried to look for one fairly active to create this post and none seem to have a lot of activity in recent weeks. That's on everybody already here, not the new kid.
To be honest, based on that I am genuinely surprised people are responding to my post. Grateful, but surprised.
Just imagine if you had more a normal post and not one of a never ending non-posts everyone makes when they leave reddit...
Like, at this point if you're not understanding it, nothing I ever say will help you understand anything
Best of luck.
Unless I have yet to discover the nefarious nature of Lemmy no one forced you to comment. No one made a 'normal' post in recent weeks - don't blame me for that. And I left Reddit because of something new that is happening, and what may have an impact on Lemmy as well as the community at the other place is falling apart.
If you had any idea who I am and how I engage with people and platforms you might have responded differently (perhaps take a look at my replies in this thread). I won't blame you for not knowing, obviously, but it is on you for making the assumption nonetheless.
I guess you're the first person I won't bother further engaging with.