got the notification to verify my age when trying to access NSFW posts or profiles already for a few weeks now, but as of today my whole account is blocked unless I verify. I guess that's it then. Based in Austria btw, so there is no specific law in place that forces Reddit to implement this and I will definetly not give my personal information to Persona, a company that belongs to Peter Thiels Palantir group.
People like that exist, but I just block them and move on and i really can't overstate how much that changes the experience.
Unfortunately, Lemmy doesn't have great mechanisms for avoiding harassment or toxicity - the ethos of free speech prevents the creators from wanting to allow users to hide their posts from others (a common solution implemented on other platforms).
Because of that, I get inbox notifications from blocked users sometimes (that I can't see unless I unblock them), so I just -> Mark all as read. Negativity gone.
On the flip side of toxicity, I've found fewer toxic mods that rule comms like their own little fiefdom to arbitrarily police (only a single one so far) - on Reddit it was pretty common to encounter.