Yes. I’d have the same response if I was able to get out more IRL and youse weren’t some of the only sane people on the internet
Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 1 day agoYou can delete this account if you feel the need to, not interested in all verification stuff, even if is half arsed.
Massively adult take right here.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 20 hours ago
Nath@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
While we have tried to make the verification system as light-touch and unobtrusive as we can, we need to accept that this policy will cost us users. Just as we have no influence on government policy, we have no control on how people will respond to our willingness to obey the law.
I even understand it. If Canada introduced some sort of law that required me to do something I couldn’t justify, I’d likely let my lemmy.ca test account lapse. People are going to evaluate their own position from evaluating the variables in front of them. And some of them are going to come down on their Aussie.Zone account not being worth that much to them. Which is totally fine.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
I know you’re probably getting hassle comments about these laws and policies. I hope everyone on the site appreciates these bullshit hoops you’re being made to jump through. You could just shut the site down and be done with it.
Nath@aussie.zone 4 minutes ago
We aren’t copping any abuse. Everyone understands that this isn’t coming from us and that there is no point hassling us over it.
Shutting the instance down is not on the cards. It means too much to too many people.
notgold@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
It’s going to come to effort. Do I create a lemmy.whatever account or do I verify? Verification isn’t guaranteed and making my own instance is above dad effort territory. Maybe someone will begin a kiwi hosted aussie.zone 😁😁 I appreciate all the effort you guys have gone too though.
Nath@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
Nah, I don’t think that’s it. Your comment here constituted more effort than some responses we’ve received. We don’t need much.
We’re lucky in Australia in that there’s a treasure trove of pop culture from the 20th century in our minds that isn’t really on Google. Just talk about Nudge’s antics or something. No kid will know who Nudge is, but he was a household name in the 80’s. Or maybe Bobby’s death and how that affected you? Google “Bobby’s death” and you’ll get the wrong Bobby.