Melbcat is seeming much better after increasing her blood pressure meds. Already there’s no more wandering around yowling (which her general vets were brushing off as dementia). She’s chilled right out and seems more comfortable. I think this specialist is a good one.
It’s really stressful the way the internet is suddenly changing for me. A lot of disruption to my hobbies and friendships. This shit better not come for Lemmy
@melbaboutown@RustyRaven what I think will happen is : social media age verification will drive under 16s AS WELL AS anyone who values their privacy to less well known social media. But as what is already happening with the UK, large Mastodon instances are pre-emptively blocking UK instances, we in AU especially larger instances will get blocked from connecting internationally. Not sure how Lemmy is going to go, but I think the International blocks will come long before local action from our own government.
Absolutely. My guess is everyone is going to flock to unmoderated platforms. This will be a nightmare as I don’t like being around kids :/
Even lesser known platforms aren’t necessarily safe if it’s coming to the fediverse.
Age verification AI is also now being rolled out for YouTube in the US as a test 🙄
I’m considering a VPN but the problem is it can get you banned or shadowbanned.
Looking at Dailymotion as a YouTube alternative because I’ve been able to find stuff there but age verification might apply there too.
Gotosocial looks good. I feel like a lot of new socmed platforms are emerging and crumbling though. Wondering if we’re going to have to go back to webrings and blogrolls and rss feeds
this short sighted reg/law will have the opposite effect intended, it will drive kids to unsafe places and i don’t blame the kids, no one wants to be surveilled 24/7 , everyone needs privacy , privacy is a part of healthy boundary
this is just more of that helicopter parenting, the kind that says that kids shouldn’t play outside on their own
It sucks. I agree kids are accessing things they shouldn’t and there’s definitely a problem but this is not the way to handle it.
They absolutely will end up on 4chan or something
But a lot of platforms and organisations love an excuse to have more control over the internet and access more of our data. As well as the government making themselves look good with a grand gesture that does very little
@melbaboutown to be honest, that time of the internet was pretty good. Though the best time for me personally was when #livejournal was on the rise: a paid account allowed you to add RSS feeds to your friend feed, so pretty much everything I wanted was in one place, but filterable and with very clear security.
RSS reader with Fedi support so locked posts are appropriately protected, with something like Gotosocial widely adopted would be pretty hard to stamp out with the current laws and even without VPN. Also most of the nerds I know personally are already leery of the risks of hosting a masto or Lemmy instance, so something that made this combo easy would probably go down well, even with those I know who so far are avoiding Fedi: they are happily using Discord but what happens when they need to show their ID there? 🤔
I largely missed out on that era due to not having internet for a lot of it but it seems better than the current environment.
I wish I had the skills for this. I don’t know how to code, host servers, or the first thing about network security. And there would still potentially be security vulnerabilities in the premade websites. And I’m not using Wordpress.
Discord is definitely going to be in the firing line.
@melbaboutown yeah I expected Discord would be in the list as it’s used by tons of kids.
It all sucks!
Hosting your own website isn’t as hard as it looks, but Fedi is a step up and I haven’t tried it myself yet, though it is on the list, along with #selfhosting. I predict a lot of learning in these areas by a LOT of people, as well as local private mesh wifi & #LoRa networks.
nah, it’s pretty basic. I run an incredibly low level server - literally just runs linux and apache, all of it basic HTML, and weirdly as a result? it’s been bulletproof. always hilarious watching people try and use php exploits, my server just goes “wat.”
It’s all Greek to me. I’ve got maybe a few baby skills (can install and browse using a simple Linux, basic commands if they’re in front of me, built one computer from scratch) but nothing in servers coding or networking. I’m absolutely not a fully fledged geek.
It would be fun to try out once but the energy isn’t available right now and the paranoia is too strong.
I’m also vaguely aware of Tor and stuff.
Ironically I’m not even specifically interested in adult content myself and don’t have a lot to hide (other than personal safety or doxxing considerations). I just hate the rampant enshittification of everything and strongly object to censorship or being (more blatantly) surveilled.
And the scope creep of it eventually coming after everything. The internet has been becoming more conservative in some very ominous ways and queer content or creators are often automatically considered inappropriate.
Melbcat is seeming much better after increasing her blood pressure meds. Already there’s no more wandering around yowling (which her general vets were brushing off as dementia). She’s chilled right out and seems more comfortable. I think this specialist is a good one.
It’s really stressful the way the internet is suddenly changing for me. A lot of disruption to my hobbies and friendships. This shit better not come for Lemmy
@melbaboutown @RustyRaven what I think will happen is : social media age verification will drive under 16s AS WELL AS anyone who values their privacy to less well known social media. But as what is already happening with the UK, large Mastodon instances are pre-emptively blocking UK instances, we in AU especially larger instances will get blocked from connecting internationally. Not sure how Lemmy is going to go, but I think the International blocks will come long before local action from our own government.
I forsee VPNs and gotosocial in my future.
Absolutely. My guess is everyone is going to flock to unmoderated platforms. This will be a nightmare as I don’t like being around kids :/
Even lesser known platforms aren’t necessarily safe if it’s coming to the fediverse.
Age verification AI is also now being rolled out for YouTube in the US as a test 🙄
I’m considering a VPN but the problem is it can get you banned or shadowbanned.
Looking at Dailymotion as a YouTube alternative because I’ve been able to find stuff there but age verification might apply there too.
Gotosocial looks good. I feel like a lot of new socmed platforms are emerging and crumbling though. Wondering if we’re going to have to go back to webrings and blogrolls and rss feeds
ffs
this short sighted reg/law will have the opposite effect intended, it will drive kids to unsafe places and i don’t blame the kids, no one wants to be surveilled 24/7 , everyone needs privacy , privacy is a part of healthy boundary
this is just more of that helicopter parenting, the kind that says that kids shouldn’t play outside on their own
It sucks. I agree kids are accessing things they shouldn’t and there’s definitely a problem but this is not the way to handle it.
They absolutely will end up on 4chan or something
But a lot of platforms and organisations love an excuse to have more control over the internet and access more of our data. As well as the government making themselves look good with a grand gesture that does very little
@melbaboutown to be honest, that time of the internet was pretty good. Though the best time for me personally was when #livejournal was on the rise: a paid account allowed you to add RSS feeds to your friend feed, so pretty much everything I wanted was in one place, but filterable and with very clear security.
RSS reader with Fedi support so locked posts are appropriately protected, with something like Gotosocial widely adopted would be pretty hard to stamp out with the current laws and even without VPN. Also most of the nerds I know personally are already leery of the risks of hosting a masto or Lemmy instance, so something that made this combo easy would probably go down well, even with those I know who so far are avoiding Fedi: they are happily using Discord but what happens when they need to show their ID there? 🤔
I largely missed out on that era due to not having internet for a lot of it but it seems better than the current environment.
I wish I had the skills for this. I don’t know how to code, host servers, or the first thing about network security. And there would still potentially be security vulnerabilities in the premade websites. And I’m not using Wordpress.
Discord is definitely going to be in the firing line.
Edit: wait it already is https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr75wypg0vo
@melbaboutown yeah I expected Discord would be in the list as it’s used by tons of kids.
It all sucks!
Hosting your own website isn’t as hard as it looks, but Fedi is a step up and I haven’t tried it myself yet, though it is on the list, along with #selfhosting. I predict a lot of learning in these areas by a LOT of people, as well as local private mesh wifi & #LoRa networks.
It’s scary to me. Hosting a website seems like something that could leak more of your personal info or allow access to your network or devices.
The security and privacy would be much more important than whether the site worked or even stayed up against hacks.
Props to the people who know how to do this
nah, it’s pretty basic. I run an incredibly low level server - literally just runs linux and apache, all of it basic HTML, and weirdly as a result? it’s been bulletproof. always hilarious watching people try and use php exploits, my server just goes “wat.”
It’s all Greek to me. I’ve got maybe a few baby skills (can install and browse using a simple Linux, basic commands if they’re in front of me, built one computer from scratch) but nothing in servers coding or networking. I’m absolutely not a fully fledged geek.
It would be fun to try out once but the energy isn’t available right now and the paranoia is too strong.
I’m also vaguely aware of Tor and stuff.
Ironically I’m not even specifically interested in adult content myself and don’t have a lot to hide (other than personal safety or doxxing considerations). I just hate the rampant enshittification of everything and strongly object to censorship or being (more blatantly) surveilled.
And the scope creep of it eventually coming after everything. The internet has been becoming more conservative in some very ominous ways and queer content or creators are often automatically considered inappropriate.