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.

  • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    This is similar to what we’ve done on aussie.zone. Go to a bar, order the drink, get receipt, write username, take photo. One of the admins spent a bunch of time, and a bot to sort through the photos.

    Apparently people were quite creative, i really want there to be a record of that creativity somewhere in the future, sounds so fun.

    Maybe they could donate the record of that little episode to some alternative social media museum in a couple decades. I think theres something about the demands of age verification and the creative ways of respecting online privacy that event produced that has some historical value.