I really hope the patience for trying to learn what the fediverse instances are and how to actually get an account dissuades a lot of the reactionaries and impending tiktok brainrot lol
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2026
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with new reddit, the writing was on the wall. a wave of bans is what helped start lemmy long before the api debaucle. when that happened, there was finally enough content that this became a usable replacement.
we are definitely ready for more content
Algo's for discoverability are needed Quiblr does it nicely but im not sure if the project is still supported and there is no app
We've always been ready. Ready for the drama. 🍿
I used a vpn that put me in the UK and reddit asked for my ID...
Is there any new development around this or are you just speculating? All I've seen so far is discussions about age verification for the UK, and most of the conversation was more about finding workarounds than leaving.
What needs to still improve?
The community here is what needs to improve the most. The majority here is hostile to new users and too prone to demand purity tests from everyone who is just thinking about leaving Reddit.
Not specifically age-verification, but they are considering checks of some sort at some point to deal with the bot problem on there. That's at least one angle. They've also just rolled it out in small scale to suspicious accounts. So whether or not it is done for the purposes of verifying age, or just dealing with bots - I suspect it'll arrive in the end once they feel they have the capital to do it.
As for the UK specific issues, it's hard to get a concrete numbers because most people in the UK just switched to a VPN. In the event of Reddit implementing global ID-check measures, it wouldn't matter what VPN you switched to - so the situation would be a bit different.
That is interesting. I haven't been following closely but wasn't the whole api fiasco supposed to solve the bot problem? At least they're lucid enough to not use the Child Safety^^^TM excuse
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