I gotta be honest I thought I’d never be able to quit Reddit. But it was a lot easier when I just did it. If this shit becomes the norm, I’ll back out of a site first time they try that shit and block the site. Maybe I’ll just have to stop using the internet. Wouldn’t that be a net positive on my life. You made me do this, capitalism.

Yeah so what could possibly go wrong when every site you want to use has your ID and passport etc.

every service will get your ID or photo

To be fair, that's not how it will work. The site and the identity verifier will be two different things, the verifier only attests that you are not underage and the site doesn't get your identity.

Still harmful though, because you can be sure that there will be scamsites redirecting people to fake but real looking verifiers for blackmail and identity theft purposes.

I for one will never put my ID or photo into any age verifier ever.

You'd need to decentralize the Internet itself. Good luck with that one...

If only there was a non-commercial, decentralized way of doing the same thing we are already doing. Perhaps make it free too. Hmmm

Last time I checked, the p!rate bay still exists. In fact there are many of them. Because the website itself is open source. The same could be done with any other site. If one gets taken down, two more pop up in it's place.

Those apps and / or the fediverse itself would get sued into the ground and shut down one app or server at a time.

Time to self-host your own instances. Sites like yunohost try to make it easy.

Do they publish their protocol or how it works anywhere? Their site didn't seem to have much technical info at first glance

Back when the govt here started incentivizing people to ask for receipts the Prime Minister's fiscal ID was made public and the fucker starting having a lot of receipts in his name.

We already have gemini. A text based internet protocol like gopher.

We have already done that. It's called Dreddit and not even major governments can stop it.

https://dark.fail/

Black jack anddddd....

Why do you assume that the old school forums are going to get exempted? They are going to get on the bus or get run over by it just like everywhere else. Government has already proven that they can, and will, regulate those forums.

I am already browsing the "old way", since the mess with reddit...

I found out there is a forum for everything. It's not centralized in one website, but it's not that different than browsing /r/whatever you know.

More often than not, the discussions are more intelligent and on point too.

For my doom-scrolling needs, Lemmy does the job.

Let us know what you find. I'm ready to go back to the 90s/early 2000s internet. Golden era of the internet.

Car forums are still alive and well because they're a great repository of knowledge. There are plenty of computing forums too still.

You can start here Marginalia - Indie Web Directory

Is that project still alive? Their git repo hasn't been updated in years.

What a throwback. I was on there but then it stopped suddenly.

ZeroNet

What's up on ZeroNet these days?

Glad I got a decent Xbox 360 collection.

I played through Black for the first time this year on my old Fat with a sata hdd. How great was that game? It felt a generation ahead of its time, especially using the higher res display mode and the component video.

If you don't already have a good controller solution, I highly recommend the Brook Wingman. I'm using mine with a Dual Shock 3 for the analog buttons (gotta have them for Ace Combat), but it supports so many controllers.

If they threaten server admins with legal action based on the global user count of lemmy rather than their local server user count I'm sure plenty of owners will fold.

Lemmy is still very centralized, sure there are many servers and that takes care of the /u/spez problem but very little else, most topic generally have one big community and it's on the one big server

You can go elsewhere, if you like speaking into the void and nobody even hearing you.