Reddit age verification for Europeans (europe.pub)

submitted 4 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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[-] albbi@piefed.ca 5 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] thisislieven@europe.pub 2 points 4 days ago

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.

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