Didn't they already implement this for UK users and maybe Australia? If they already have the software ready to go there probably isn't much barrier to it happening
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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pirating is so important these days
Always been important. But now it's more important than ever
Very possible because more and more countries are bringing in mandatory age verification so it may be easier for them to just make everyone upload ID regardless of where they live ( because it solves the problem of people getting around age verification by using VPN)
Depressing.
all at the same time, at the behest of palintir, it wasnt by accident they all decided to have age verification.
The lady who spearheaded age verification in Australia is either the most useful idiot who ever lived or a lying snake. She talked about forcing us all to give our pictures to Peter Thiel like it was bringing the corporations to account.
Fairly likely if the current political climate continues. Could be a big boon for Lemmy honestly, if we've got the porn and no one else does.
Careful what you wish for, we might end up drowning in <16yo users.
Eh, plenty of adults also oppose having to provide their face.
I think the Forumverse should potentially prepare for this via scaling up, or increasing mod tools (or both).
Time to shine, https://fedinsfw.app/ !
Lol
Also do they ever fix their content warning page?
They did
They did, yes.
This, in sync, opens a new window instead of opening the instance within the app. Super weird.
Sync was never really fully operational before it got abandoned. It's still got several pretty severe bugs. I love it, but it is what it is.
I recommend Summit instead, personally.
How do I make it so I don't see the icons from the instances? I just want the titles so like /memes but not [icon from memes] /memes
It's right there in the settings... Just search "community" in the settings and you'll find "Prefer community icon" under the posts feed customization.
It's abandoned?
Yes. Last update was two years ago. Ljdawson is busy on other projects. I don't think Lemmy ever took off enough to be worthwhile for him to work on. To me it seems Sync was always a business rather than a passion project and the user base around here is not big enough to be profitable the way it was on Reddit.
It's a shame because I used to be a Sync user and liked it a lot. I am fully converted to Summit now, though. idunnololz is a great developer who has close communication with the community.
they already freely gave the DHS on users data, although it wont be useful since its most AI bot posts.