With the ban going into effect, I thought it might be helpful to allow people to share their experiences about the Australian teen social media ban and how it has affected them.
Note: For the Aussie Zone lemmy requirements, see here. Please use that thread for an Aussie Zone specific discussions or questions.
Good luck, everyone!
I’ve only looked Facebook, Discord, and YouTube so far. No general age gating, but today is the first day I’ve been asked for age verification by Discord to view NSFW channels. Frustrating, because the only NSFW channel I actually ever look at is for some very slightly memes in a server that I’m a mod of. Hard to mod if they’re gating me.
I suspect they’ve tagged my account, so a VPN won’t work. But I wonder if pointing my camera at some fake old people will work.
Probably, unless they found a way to fix it. Kids in the UK already did that by using some mode in Death Stranding to make the character open his mouth on cue for the camera.
I hate ai but you could probably pull some fake old geezer off google and there might be a few of the same one with different expressions.
I won’t be bothering though. I’m tired. Think I’ll just drop my email or number to a handful of people still on the platforms if that’s still possible, and if they don’t keep in touch then that’s that.
My reliance on social media has been externally forced and using it has started to aggressively suck. Lemmy may be the only social media I bother to try to keep.
I wonder if the instructions are consistent enough that someone could make a bespoke video on YouTube that opens its mouth at the right time.
tbh it looks like most of these platforms are going to be predominantly relying on historical analysis and account age, so most people probably won’t ever need to provide any evidence. If your Facebook account is 10+ years old, has photos of you on it already, and you’ve shared content including boring adult subjects like politics and professional sports, they’ll probably already assume you’re an adult.
I’ve definitely been getting increasingly frustrated at Facebook’s algorithm though. At the very least I am seriously considering installing an extension that hides the entire News Feed, so I only see stuff that I specifically seek out, which will likely only be on a handful of pages I actually care about.
I’ve got no idea. Maybe someone with filters on can perform the movements that get asked for.
I’m not going to use a real name one though which is the only one old enough. Facebook is also really kind of crap, I haven’t gone on it in ages.
Also years ago I got my data out of curiousity and Google thought I was an 18 year old male gamer.