This whole saga is pretty absurd and shocking, I’m too cheap to run a VPN but I’ll likely have to start selfhosting on a foreign VPS.
Comment on Discussion Thread 🪀 Wednesday 24 September 2025
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Age verification is going to apply to GitHub too? Fucksake.
briongloid@aussie.zone 1 day ago
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
It’s so stupid as it’ll only funnel kids towards more dangerous sites.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
omg, this might work out well in the long run
all the morons won’t be able to know how to verify and log in
and the far right nutcases will refuse
so they won’t be watching sky/fox etc and commenting anymore
they will have less indoctrination and will vote better and be less racist and nasty too
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
In the meantime I as a disabled adult will lose access to all of my social media accounts plus YouTube, Steam and Github.
Possibly also Lemmy if they decide to go after us. And potentially my Yahoo and Gmail emails plus whatever is on them. And potentially my Dropbox and Flickr accounts. The list keeps waffling and expanding.
Salvo@aussie.zone 1 day ago
When you make Unmonitored Communication a Criminal Act, only Criminals will have Unmonitored Communication.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I’m looking into smoke signals and carrier pigeons
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Wtf? Get stuffed (not you)
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I know right.
I take some comfort in the fact that Microsoft is currently being sued for a couple of things and I hope they get rammed.
But yes. GitHub, an absolute hive of social media grooming and underage access to porn. /s The overreach is becoming more blatant.