How are you unable to make an account on Reddit now? I would imagine your IP address from the early 2010s would be different from what you have now.

My rigga

What if I don’t have anything?

1. Sign up for age verification platform and upload your government ID on the platform (let’s call this platform Age Verifier).
2. Age Verifier confirms you’re an adult, and lists you as an adult in their system.
3. Age Verifier purges your government ID and any PII on you. The only thing they keep is your basic account details and the fact that they’ve confirmed you’re an adult.
4. The next time you login to an adult site, you verify yourself by logging into Age Verifier’s platform. The adult site confirms with Age Verifier that you’re an adult, and you’re good to go.

This system probably works, but it’s not without its downsides. We’ll need a way to confirm that your government ID and PII is actually deleted on Age Verifier’s platform. A way to deal with this might be to make sure Age Verifier is never driven by profit so they’ll never need to look into selling people’s data. Maybe it could be ran by a non-profit? Or perhaps it can be ran by the government? But if you don’t trust the government, that could be an issue.

And I can also see an issue where one guy who keeps creating different Age Verifier accounts, verifying that the account is an adult, and then selling that account to people.

This is great news. Gives me hope that one day, I’ll be able to play all of my games on Linux.

Ah, interesting! I’ve learned something new today. Thank you! Is there a way to find out how many subscribers are there in total for a specific community?

Could the subscriber count on https://sh.itjust.works not matching up with the subscriber count shown on https://browse.feddit.de be a related issue?

On https://sh.itjust.works, [email protected] has 1.5k subscribers. But if you check on https://browse.feddit.de, that same community has 26k subscribers.

Is there a way to search for other communities in other instances without having to add those instances on Liftoff? For example, I’m on sh.itjust.works and want to search for /c/Canada on lemmy.ca. The only way to do that is to first add lemmy.ca and then I can search.

Glad I’m not the only one. It feels like I need to add a new instance every time I look for a community outside the ones I’ve already added. :/