this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
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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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[โ€“] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 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.

[โ€“] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

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