On the behalf of the admin and moderation team:
We will not add age-verification unless we will literally be force-shutdown if we don’t.
If we do, it will be a one-on-one call in which you show one of us – personally, on our actual phone numbers or signal or some shit – your ID and we just put a little mark on your profile saying “yep we verified”
we will not, at any point, ever build age-verification into the software nor rely on AI to do it. We don’t fucking want your data, it’s a massive risk to have around.
If we can get by without it, we will simply not do it, even if we have to block some countries. The UK is not a “target market” for app.wafrn.net as we have no target market.
Yep. As a Fediverse admin that’s basically it. Until there are legal or financial consequences there will be no ID verification. If I am forced… Well my instance will be disabled. Simple as that unfortunately.
I cannot confirm or deny in writing that this is the approach on quokk.au.
Fortunately such laws do not seem forthcoming in my country, and I have yet to see how not following the laws of other countries will be able to meaningfully affect us.
I’m not going to show you my ID, but I can hold an extensive conversation with you about Gaia Online, which should prove my age quite well.
Let us speak now of… The Mighty Orbots.