You may not but many others DO.

Maybe we can get more people on the Fediverse

Once there’s enough people on the Fediverse it will get noticed by the Authorities and when that happens you’ll see instances start shutting down as they are unwilling, or unable, to comply with the Age Verification and Social Media laws that are being passed all over the globe.

I’m somewhat surprised that the NSFW instances haven’t already been hit by the Age Verification laws that many US States have but as soon as a single state, say Utah, notices the rest of them will pile on and the Fediverse will start to unravel.

This isn’t just a US problem either, there’s Age Verification and Social Media laws being proposed or already in effect in many Western Nations. Hell the two Australian instances are already afoul of the laws in their country so as soon as their Government notices they are going to have some difficult decisions to make.

If they said that about Lemmy i would tell them to fuck off

Lemmy will eventually be targeted by the various Age Verification and Social Media laws popping up all over the globe. More of them are being proposed and passed every week and the confusion and risk just grow higher.

As an example my home instance, lemmy.today, is run out of Washington State and they have proposed legislation that could impact us. HB2112 and HB1834 are just two examples.

Even if none of them pass in WA, and one of them surely will, it won’t too be much longer before the NSFW instances in the lemmiverse start getting targeted by the wide range of States who already have such laws. Instance operators do not have the money to challenge these laws in court so their options will be: comply, shut down, or get fined into oblivion / risk jail time.

I’m not happy about it but in IMO Lemmy is living on borrowed time.

As an American I’m rolling my eyes so hard at your comment that they are about to fly out of my skull.

Jokes on him,I’m already in at least a dozen.

This isn’t about user permissions, its about the operating mode of the CPU.

Nah, the attitude WAY predates Ol’ Rupert.

Fedinsfw.app

Alpha Centauri is a game I’ve had since release. Ended up building a dual P3 1Ghz box so I could play without experiencing extreme slow downs during end game when the whole world is visible.

I still do a playthrough once a twice a year.

Warfighter has been a term for probably twenty years now. It came into use during the GWOT.

Assuming its not cheap piece of crap that isn’t UL listed and that’s where the problem is.

Same, except my monitor was amber.

Well…we’re waiting!

The easy answer is to use commercial displays. They are more expensive and may not have the latest tech BUT they last longer and don’t do the spyware shenanigans.

Add Illinois to the list.

https://legiscan.com/IL/bill/SB3977/2025

I wonder how fediverse instances are supposed to handle this.

Mahsa Amini.

Because not everybody is willing to roll over and give up.

Heat IS energy.

I doubt any of the places across the country that have done the same will actually prevent ICE from setting up in whatever area they want.

It won’t. ICE is legally able to enter any public space in the performance of their duties and a public park certainly qualifies as a “public space” no matter what the sign says.