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Oh, now this explains why Mastodon.social removed the Live Feed feature: "protect the kids!" I'm not expecting that this "interdisciplinary age-verification working group" is anything else but becoming another obedient cattle and add another vulnerability vector tying online identities to IRL identities (be it face biometrics, government-emitted ID or both).

These people, such as Mastodon administrators, they're giving a fuck about people who, like me, need a pseudonym so we can express ourselves religiously and politically amidst a surrounding society where our specific socially-unsanctioned expression leads to unemployability and, worse, even tyranny from state authority (e.g. cops and judges) if tied to our IRL names.

Yes, because when a statue (Lucifer/Baphomet) owned by a legit Quimbanda temple is seized by the judiciary because local evangelicals got too frightened by it, or a mãe de santo (a woman leader of a terreiro, which is the sacred gathering place for Afro-Brazilian religions), who was refused a car ride by a bigoted evangelical, gets accused by a judge to be "the intolerant one" (in the eyes of the judge, it was not the evangelical who shouted the cliché "devil banishing" punchline "sangue de jesus tem poder" to her and refused her the nonfree ride thus causing her moral and social harm: in the eyes of the judge who's probably evangelical themselves, it was her for being "litigious" with the "innocent evangelical man"), this means if my pseudonym gets tied to my real identity (and no matter how "safe and anonymous" are the age checking systems, digital leaks will happen sooner or later), suddenly HRs and employers, potentially evangelicals, will know I'm an occultist, suddenly an evangelical cop in a blitz will know I'm an occultist, and I'll become further ostracized... that is, if I don't end up being detained or jailed for any random reason that a cop, the one with the badge and the gun, not me, decides so.