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Age Verification On Lemmy (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by BentiGorlich@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've seen multiple requests for nsfw lemmy communities like reddit has. I live in Germany, and I think you are required to verify that the users that see porn content are above the age of 18. Does Lemmy has or plan to have a feature for that? Maybe this should be an issue on github?

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[–] planish@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Can we do this in a way that handles:

Accounts that were registered 18 years ago
Control of accounts elsewhere that were registered 18 years ago
Anybody who can sign something with an 18 year old key
Anybody who some ordinary humans can vouch for
Anybody who has a magic cookie from some kind of distributed system that does this
Anybody whose browser thinks they are 18

Determining that people are a certain age shouldn't be the magic power of enormous companies or government ID issuers.

[–] png@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The problem with this is that in most countries/most services, you cant legally have any accounts before you are a certain age like 13 or 16. Also, babies cant make accounts and people would just sell old ones.