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This does explain why a lot of subreddits had the pinned comment be the automod telling people to follow the rules.

the Lemmy devs are very much against merged comments

No? It was said it shouldn't be done in the backend, a frontend or an alternative client can still do PieFed style comment listing.

He just needs to install GMod.

Anyone else read horse girl and thought they meant like Uma Musume?

The Threadiverse app with the most standout feature is probably Quiblr and its recommendation system. I can't speak to if it's actually any good, as I don't use it, but it's interesting nontheless.

Also, I wish more apps has lemmy-ui 'chat' sort for comments. It's surprisingly nice for seeing new comments in a thread you've read before.

Of all the things to get mad at Reddit/UK govt for age restricting, war forage should should be far down that list. Watching people get blown into pieces is literally traumatising and ideally children shouldn't be exposed to it.

God, it's so stupid that the govt thinks making every website either do its own age verification or pay out of pocket to some we're-totally-not-going-to-sell-your-data firm is reasonable. Why not require OS-level parental controls to be exposed through some API (that browsers would wrap around) and require service providers to gatekeep content based on that, that would at least be more robust than this, something a simple VPN can get around.

Right, right, this is Tory legislation banking on the fear of having your porn habits linked to your ID deterring you from accessing it.

Lol, I didn't know that was a thing.

Can we do something about mirrors next? Every time I look in one I see a Br*t.

I believe we're compliant with the law, I've patched our Lemmy with this so we're not hosting NSFW content and to my knowledge we don't have any communities that need to be age kept (ones that encourage eating disorders, suicide, or self-harm). I think we need to make some changes to our TOC and land some documentation explaining how the report feature works 'in a way that a child can understand'*. There are more changes I'm looking at making in Lemmy that would make Ofcom happier (like this), but again I don't think we'd have issues with Ofcom if they looked at us.

* We have to assume you're all children as we can't say otherwise unless we do surveillance (or 'age verification') despite the average age of users of this instance probably being in the 30s.

I think I'm fairly lucky in that non of the sites I use have gone the geoblock route. Even so, I pay for a VPN so it's not like that is effective.

Ofcom is the designated regulator and has the power of enforcement. The law doesn't define what age verification means, only that it much be 'highly effective' (Section 12 (6)). It is therefore left to Ofcom to set out in its Code of Practices (Section 41 (3)) what 'highly effective age verification' means, which is what this guidance is. This isn't Ofcom being nice, this is them telling you how they're going to enforce the law.