I remember a few years back facebook had me 'verify' my account by sending them a copy of my ID. I sent them a stock image of a random dude flipping the bird and my 'ID' got accepted.
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
1227 points (99.7% liked)
Lemmy Shitpost
40768 readers
4144 users here now
Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.
Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!
Rules:
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
...
2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means:
-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
...
3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
...
4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
...
5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
...
6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
...
If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.
Also check out:
Partnered Communities:
1.Memes
10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)
Reach out to
All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
For a shady steam keys reselling site, I once sent a picture of my id with literally everything blacked out but my name (they had that from my credit card), and it got accepted too
"for the children"... Lol.
Quite the irony when those children are being used as tools. Their age is weaponised against them and projected towards everyone.
Sure, I can give you a government ID
it won't be real or it won't be mine
good luck verifying it with the South African department of home affairs
it takes months to get an actual government ID issued
if I have to wait that long,
I'm using a different website
dickhead
spoiler
@not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone how do I make that cool word art
The beauty of the DHA πΏπ¦
Here, just use mine.
Expires in 3024? Nice.
Stop I can only get so eShrekt
I found out that when confronted with ID surveillance I don't really want to visit that site after all.
Companies keep pushing security onto the user at the same time as demanding more personal data.
They can suck my....
they have data breaches all the time, if they don't outright sell it, even to ICE. It's insane if them to try and frame this as secure
If you transfer me Bitcoin I will send back triple
wave2:flash1: Trimming armor!
Captain America at the meeting
Complain to your local government. Yes, many websites are guilty of surveillance capitalism themselves and are lobbying for it, but the recent push was largely in response to new surveillance laws passed by governments under various guises, such as protecting the youth.
My government are pushing for this stuff though.
Which is why I am here now instead of on reddit where I got fed up of being asked to submit for facial and ID scans. Fuck that! I have seen some of my comments online, there is no way I want my ID permanently attached to that.
welcome! great choice!
I originally planned to just join the boycott for only a month, like 2 years ago because of the third party apps thing
but I ended up never going back because lemmy is so much more chill, interesting and fun to me
If they associate my online identity with my real one, i am so cooked, i said certain stuff...
Yep. Tbh even pretty normal stuff like complaining about work. You probably wouldn't under your real name though.
Yes, I assumed so. Welcome to Lemmy! I meant: Complain to your government about it! Only when they are pressured by enough citizens is they're a chance that they may reconsider.
Why canβt I upvote this more than once?!
Duh, because you need a govt id to upvote it twice.
Oh, got it. Yeah, I want to do that. But... uh... where do I upload it, I don't see it?
They need it to profile new models for their trump island in Albania
I wanted to start using Monero. But found I have no way of buying it in my country without giving gov ID to the exchange.
Some Know Your Customer legalities. Fucking sucks.
The only other way is sketchy P2P trade sites where you have to trust the person at the other end.
Using Local Monero (Iβm assuming what you are referring to) is fairly safe in low amounts ($50)
load more comments
(1 replies)
DM me dude I can send you
load more comments
(1 replies)
But have you considered purchasing this bauble online
view more: next βΊ