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So it begins (lemmy.ml)

Reddit has begun rolling out mandatory age verification for any NSFW content, as well as for some social media functions, if the AI determines you might be under a certain age.

Another good day to be on Lemmy... until the surveillance capitalist tech overlords lobby enough to get their great firewall of the West, anyway.

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[-] tixooo@lemmy.zip 11 points 21 hours ago

Can confirm. Just prepared an account and selected my communities. Have spent too much time on reddit with half a mil karma if that matters, just proof of the time spend there, but I am not giving my ID to social media...

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 11 hours ago

How can you walk away from that many internet points?

[-] tixooo@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

Haha, never cares tbh, just a proof of time invested, nothing else for me.

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.org 4 points 16 hours ago

Yeah ID shouldn't be a requirement to write some bullshit online, like wtf doesn't anyone realize it's ridiculous

[-] tixooo@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

just saying this out loud is crazy ... i need to identify myself to read and write!

this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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