Reddit age verification for Europeans (europe.pub)

submitted 5 days ago by thisislieven@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub

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I have just been tossed off Reddit. No bad behaviour but Reddit suspects I am not old enough. I have been an adult for quite a few years. Note that age verification is not (yet) required under EU law.

The age verification on Reddit runs through a third party which is associated with Palantir. I will not do this, and there's enough data associated with my account to show I'm an adult.
In general I am extremely sceptical of giving this level of personal information to any third party but especially a company that just cannot be trusted and has proven itself to be a destructive force in the world. I would not recommend anyone to use this, even if it may lose you access to platforms.

On Reddit there have been concerns among the various European subs and its community. I have encouraged various mods to collectively search for a solution. A move to Lemmy seems the obvious one - also just for the sake of supporting European tech and platforms. Alas, none have acted. The best I got was 'good idea, we'll look into it'.

My guess is I am far from the only one to lose access, if not already than soon the same will happen to other users. It may destroy the community that exists there, and my guess is that it's the largest online truly pan-European community.

Anyway, I've signed up for Lemmy / europe.pub a while ago and am eager to use it instead of Reddit. I just hope this place becomes a little more lively.

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

[-] thisislieven@europe.pub 1 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] thisislieven@europe.pub 3 points 5 days ago

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.

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