Reddit has begun rolling out mandatory age verification for any NSFW content, as well as for some social media functions, if the AI determines you might be under a certain age.
Another good day to be on Lemmy... until the surveillance capitalist tech overlords lobby enough to get their great firewall of the West, anyway.
Further reading:
- https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/50368431806484-European-Union-Digital-Services-Act-DSA
- https://cybernews.com/security/eu-age-verification-app-hack/
- https://piunikaweb.com/2026/02/19/persona-age-verification-surveillance-allegations/
- https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/23595536875796-Digital-Services-Act-DSA-Information-for-EU-users
So it begins
5 Comments
lemmysmash@piefed.social · 25 pts · 46d
Stop using it. The only way to force them to revert this bullshit is if they start losing revenue. And by them I mean, all of them.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 14 pts · 46d
Yeah I’m always confused when people come here to complain about Reddit. Like, you already did it. You switched. Now move on with your life.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 13 pts · 46d
Like many things in life, it's not necessarily an either-or situation. Personally, Reddit is still enormously useful to me for a variety of reasons, and it's well worth putting up with various difficulties in order to keep getting the benefits.
And I say that as someone who's put hundreds of hours in to content creation here, the past three years.
Staden_@pawb.social · 13 pts · 46d
Time for fedi admins to get ready for another reddit exodus
binaryqueen@programming.dev · 6 pts · 46d
Hi, I do have Reddit accounts and they don't want me to delete my accounts! I tried to delete but the submit button for deletion is grayed out. Help.