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There's tens of thousands of sites out there under the description of "user-to-user communication service" with mixed content. If you set the conditions that every single one of them must provide age-ID tools for adult content access (aussie-zone's improvised solutions will certainly not be legally viable) the level of continued enforcement would be utterly ridiculous. It would be even worse if your country implemented a social-media minimum age requirement and declared that all sites thet enable user-to-user interaction also come under it. OSA in the UK, which does the former (requiring sites to age-gate adult content), attempts to do this - has been active since July of last year and barely scratched the surface.
You don't need to ban literally any website that could be classified as social media to have the desired effect. You just need to ban the big ones: TikTok, Instagram etc. Because these are the sites that are creating the most harm (through addiction, body image issues, etc.). There are diminishing returns blocking anything beyond that. Kids aren't getting addicted to gardening forums or developing anorexia because they spent too much time on tech support IRC channels.
Sure, but recall how this conversation started - we were talking about this specifically in the context of the Fediverse applying age-ID checks. It's financially non-viable and any attempt to enforce it would force instances to all shut down. Not that it realistically can be enforced.
Fair point. I'm sure if there was a social media ban the fediverse would be a low priority. That said I still don't see how it would be financially unviable because like I mentioned earlier most instances already have an application process
Because age-ID tools cost money to maintain. And most larger instances do not screen every single application individually. If it could be done financially without age-ID, it would certainly make running the instance a complete chore and cause many to shut down on that basis alone.
And asking people to give them a picture of them in a pub isn't going to be accepted as a valid age technique legally.