got the notification to verify my age when trying to access NSFW posts or profiles already for a few weeks now, but as of today my whole account is blocked unless I verify. I guess that’s it then. Based in Austria btw, so there is no specific law in place that forces Reddit to implement this and I will definetly not give my personal information to Persona, a company that belongs to Peter Thiels Palantir group.
ehhh. the nsfw community is a bit lacking. which, like it or not, drives user engagement and boosts content creation.
We defederated the NSFW instance because they allow a fauxbait community.
What is fauxbait, you may wonder? Well, you’ve probably heard of jailbait, which is nudes of children who look like adults. Fauxbait is faux jailbait. It’s nudes of adults who look like children who look like adults.
And often these are regular consenting adult porn models, who look like adults, but some pervert went “nyehehe these women look like children” and posted them to this community. And I think that’s degrading and harmful to these women’s livelihoods. I wouldn’t want someone to look at My boobs and decide I looked like a kid.
Furthermore, according to Australian law, framing a picture as child porn (or fake child porn) makes it child porn. It’s kinda the same problem as the 4000 year old dragon who looks like a little girl.
Is it better than r/jailbait and all the pedo shit on Reddit? Sure. But it’s still pedo shit, and I want a social network with zero pedo shit.
cool.