That's one of the biggest issues I see, having to go to reddit to find tech help or general info/advice.

People kinda go and bunch up together, then magnetize and start drawing in more and more people to the black hole, takes energy not go fall into the big socials. Most people are to lazy to care about alternatives

adjusts glasses mhh ackshually... Well like if you mean the start of puberty (8-13) yes fuck that, but its not pedophilia after a certain age by definition. If you feel calling it pedophilia cause it has extra shock value sure, you can try and do that, but it's just untrue.

While I agree the younger you go the more icky it gets, 18 as the cutoff is completely arbitrary and a 16y/o could be way more mature than an 18y/o in a ton of cases, of course there are special protections even for 16/17 (some considering bigger age gaps worse even if everything else is proper and legal)

I don't feel I was any differently prepared to engage in sex at 16 compared to 18, if we are gonna argue that we should drive age of consent to 21y/o maybe instead. Or higher.

So "mature enough" could be untrue even for something that's 23 years old or older, while no longer pedo after the defined pedophilia cutoff age is just a fact.

What do you expect off of a man literally called Gary OLD-MAN

Made it for you

It's alright here (I'm also super new here) tho there's way less content going around here than on reddit, gotta get to work posting and commenting here to make it more active (personally) I feel you have a bigger stake on keeping a community active when it's smaller like this

ephebophilia From what I just googled ephebophilia starts at 15, 11-14 is hebephilia, I think a lower age of consent in some cases can be argued (I think it's already a thing that in special cases it is already allowed, for example, a 16-17 y/o with someone who is 18-20) with special protections in place, like keeping a close look at the relationship and power dynamics.

Talking about this as a non-professional pedo (sarcasm), as I once dated 16 while I was 19, yea, a bit icky, but legal. I think the law as it is already contemplates underaged relationships enough, I think it even contemplates 16-17 with older adults even, again with a ton of restrictions (you can get charged super fast if the relationship has abuses that might pass as normal fights in a same age relationship, stuff like that)

I think its perfect as it is really. Safe enough for most and even giving a bit for the most depraved, impatient people of society that don't wanna necessarily wait

I think you should flat out not accept anything 15 and lower, you're cutting too close to the person not being mature enough, a 16 y/o is pretty close to 18 when it comes to maturity, but go to 15,14,13, and that's not a thing anymore, 12 and less is insane to even think about.

I don't know, I was thinking of communities

People in Lemmy are still people, I don't think you got banned off of reddit for "'absolutely no reason" my guess is that you said something (doesn't matter if the take/comment you put on reddit was or wasn't good/proper) that pissed someone off and they banned you.

I wouldn't venture to think Lemmy is thaaaaaat different from reddit in the sense that every single user will be reasonable, level headed and open to civil discussion on here. From what I read from other users, it is still possible to get banned "for no reason" on Lemmy too.

What a way to dodge adressing what I said lol... Proving my point

Straw man now lol, I point out you engaged in an ad hominem fallacy and you call me a victim cause that's way easier for you than to adress that I called you out on using flawed logic, that't not a response to the point I made, again, the age of my account is not a factor in what I choose to say about a topic, it's like saying you can't have an opinion on abortion because you are not a woman, or an opinion on public universities because you went to a private one.

Or are you gonna argue that it's somehow "wrong" to not want a really cool new thing you found to prosper in the best way possible? I'm not the boss of anyone, not buiding up any cults or gathering followers of any kind to follow my orders, I'm just a guy, sharing his thoughts on something, and asking more experienced people on their thoughts... If you think that's a bad thing...

It's nice of you to try and get an ego boost out of me (shouldn't even need to tell you, but, Ad Hominem? really? The age of my account doesn't have anything to do with what I say)

But go ahead, point out where in my post I said anything about telling other people what to do? My post was made out of curiosity of what other people thought about this, framed as a question, and showcasing some of my preliminary thoughts about both options, if you can find a place in my post where I tell others how they should run Lemmy I'll apologize, I don't have any issues with apologizing, hell, I'll take down the post even.

If not, stfu, you're just being an ass for literally no reason, if you can't point it out, then you are just talking shit, and it seems that in your looong history of this account (9months on Lemmy) you didn't even learn how to construct a proper argument.