I no longer drink, don’t have a car and don’t wish to appear in any photos. And despite having been a redditor for 12 years, changing handles frequently for privacy means I’ve been Melbaboutown for much less than that. I’m not sharing any other accounts as the long term ones are doxable.

It sucks that Lemmy is being forced to do this and I wouldn’t even humour it for a second if it wasn’t you guys asking.

Guess if I want to keep talking to you awesome units Molly is just going to have to hear about my calcium pills, gaming off floppy discs as a child, and how I still have the Walkman I owned as a teen. Also Video Ezy and Blockbuster.

Whether the government wants to believe me is up to them.

It's funny how the mainstream media has focused only on listing the big social media giants as being the targets.

I've also had a message from another not so mainstream hookup app that the proof of age is coming and to prepared to comply. How remains to be seen.

I must say I really like the idea of ordering a drink at a bar with the user name.

Holy smokes, triple digits 😳... What a flex

Added my username to the profile page and messaged that, cause I'm proactive 💪💪

I've got one even older than that!

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/user/579

Reading Comprehension and attention span are a part of the test.

The 'drop her a message' link needs to be a lot more obvious, IMO.

Thanks for bringing that up. The good news is that it only affects users at our instance. I should make that clearer on the title. That's one of the reasons the law is pointless. A kid can sign up at another instance that isn't in Australia and be otherwise unaffected.

What if I promise faithfully (so help me Dog) that I am over 16? If that doesn’t work, my 20 year old son will vouch for me. And anyone else willing to pay him.

That would absolutely count if you can somehow send Molly a message she can verify from that account. Make a post form your sixteen-year old Whirlpool/Reddit/etc account saying that you are user@aussie.zone and then send the link to the post to Molly. Sorted.

How about an account I created 20 years ago, does that count? 😁

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/user/75046

I just got a notification on one of my posts from a LW user. It only appeared in my inbox about 22 hours after the comment was made.

edit: and another appeared, 21 hours after it was made.

Yeah. Now some of those posts and comments are specifically from instances with which blahaj is defederated, so that's normal behavior, but there's also posts and comments that are visible from world accounts that can't be seen unless I'm logged in with my world account

Oh it's happening to you on blahaj too?

Yeah I'm seeing the same thing. Some posts aren't even showing up, posts from lemmy.world accounts, too. That shouldn't be happening, right?

I'm not sure what metrics those sites adopt to determine whether the instance is up or not, but clearly they're in error regarding us being offline. I can't even get the second link to show instances to find us.

@nath@aussie.zone

Thanks for keeping AZ running and keeping me entertained between bluey episodes.

Out of interest, when outage happened i noticed some sites don't see AZ any more.

https://lemmy-status.org/endpoints/_aussie-zone

https://the-federation.info/platform/73

if mastodon had a shared block list where i could block all american politics

Thanks for keeping the server running so reliably that this event was actually notable.

Booo!!

I have no intention to help you do either of these things. Maybe possibly feed you in a pinch, but absolutely not the other one.

Cheers for all your work with the server!

Unable to access our zone of aussie, we were all distraught beyond description and unable to feed or bathe ourselves 💔

I had noticed and spent some time creating a backup account on a new instance that i was thinking about doing anyway due to the possible effect of ID verification (I refuse to upload my ID to the webz).

Thanks for being such a great admin, moderator and host of aussie.zone, you are doing such a great job.

Thanks for the update.

I really should get back on Mastodon...