I've been thinking. Every mainstream social media is age verificated now. But sites such as SomethingAwful, 4chan and the Fediverse weren't. So why are we trying to populate it if the Fedi' was popular too, we would ALSO be verificated and spywared (made up this word for this post's sake)?

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[–] 22 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

The key word being "instance" - they'd have a helluva time trying to take down the whole thing altogether. Much like pirate sites, chop one head off & two more will take its place. Communities will just migrate & reestablish footing elsewhere. If the feds do it enough, then backup plans will become automatic where instances back each other up.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Sure you can make the technology more resilient but if the enforcement is punitive enough then it won't matter.

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