Post #1671218
2026-04-25 08:48 UTC
@apz @argv_minus_one you guys had a valid experience, but increasingly this isn't how online community works for most young people. I met my people on the old internet, but now the internet is monitized and managed to the benefit of cyberpunk style megacorps that atomize and control people on the net. These days there's a lot more young people who go online, and instead of finding their people they end up radicalized or with eating disorders. Anything to keep them kids hooked on the product.
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-25 18:14
@quinn Age verification not only won't solve that problem, it'll make that problem much, much worse. Corporate social media will still exist, kids will defeat the age verification, but alternatives like Mastodon will all be forced to shut down because they can't afford age verification. And that problem affects adults just as much as kids, so even if age verification did work and didn't have the side effect of shutting down alternatives, it still wouldn't solve the problem. @apz