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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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I seem to remember an instance somewhere had a quite great idea, they would have their admin team request a bottle of wine or similar plus a picture of the payment voucher as a form of adult identification. Their argument was that if someone can legally buy drinks then they are legally adult, and thus they could verify with that without ever requiring any sort of PII.

[–] erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 35 minutes ago

American in shambles having to wait another 3 years to go online

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 12 points 4 hours ago (1 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 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 hours ago

Based and good