Comment on Discussion Thread ❌️🤖😥 Friday 1st August 2025
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Melbcat is seeming much better after increasing her blood pressure meds. Already there’s no more wandering around yowling. She’s chilled right out. I think this specialist is a good one.
It’s really stressful the way the internet is suddenly changing for me. A lot of disruption to my hobbies and friendships. This shit better not come for Lemmy
kudra@aus.social 5 months ago
@melbaboutown @RustyRaven what I think will happen is : social media age verification will drive under 16s AS WELL AS anyone who values their privacy to less well known social media. But as what is already happening with the UK, large Mastodon instances are pre-emptively blocking UK instances, we in AU especially larger instances will get blocked from connecting internationally. Not sure how Lemmy is going to go, but I think the International blocks will come long before local action from our own government.
I forsee VPNs and gotosocial in my future.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
ffs
this short sighted reg/law will have the opposite effect intended, it will drive kids to unsafe places and i don’t blame the kids, no one wants to be surveilled 24/7 , everyone needs privacy , privacy is a part of healthy boundary
this is just more of that helicopter parenting, the kind that says that kids shouldn’t play outside on their own
kudra@aus.social 5 months ago
@melbaboutown to be honest, that time of the internet was pretty good. Though the best time for me personally was when #livejournal was on the rise: a paid account allowed you to add RSS feeds to your friend feed, so pretty much everything I wanted was in one place, but filterable and with very clear security.
RSS reader with Fedi support so locked posts are appropriately protected, with something like Gotosocial widely adopted would be pretty hard to stamp out with the current laws and even without VPN. Also most of the nerds I know personally are already leery of the risks of hosting a masto or Lemmy instance, so something that made this combo easy would probably go down well, even with those I know who so far are avoiding Fedi: they are happily using Discord but what happens when they need to show their ID there? 🤔
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 5 months ago