On the behalf of the admin and moderation team:

We will not add age-verification unless we will literally be force-shutdown if we don't.

If we do, it will be a one-on-one call in which you show one of us -- personally, on our actual phone numbers or signal or some shit -- your ID and we just put a little mark on your profile saying "yep we verified"

we will not, at any point, ever build age-verification into the software nor rely on AI to do it. We don't fucking want your data, it's a massive risk to have around.

If we can get by without it, we will simply not do it, even if we have to block some countries. The UK is not a "target market" for app.wafrn.net as we have no target market.

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 19 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Yep. As a Fediverse admin that's basically it. Until there are legal or financial consequences there will be no ID verification. If I am forced.... Well my instance will be disabled. Simple as that unfortunately.

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I cannot confirm or deny in writing that this is the approach on quokk.au.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 points 6 hours ago

Fortunately such laws do not seem forthcoming in my country, and I have yet to see how not following the laws of other countries will be able to meaningfully affect us.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not going to show you my ID, but I can hold an extensive conversation with you about Gaia Online, which should prove my age quite well.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Let us speak now of... The Mighty Orbots.