With the ban going into effect, I thought it might be helpful to allow people to share their experiences about the Australian teen social media ban and how it has affected them.
Note: For the Aussie Zone lemmy requirements, see here. Please use that thread for an Aussie Zone specific discussions or questions.
Good luck, everyone!
Good idea for a post!
I’m very interested to see what if anything happens to my accounts. My Reddit is 13, my Facebook probably 16 or 17, my YouTube could probably vote.
My Twitch account is quite young…I may have first created it during the pandemic, and I certainly only first started using it with any regularity then. But I do mostly watch streams of games old enough that the average professional is in their late 20s.
I have Xitter and Snapchat accounts, but haven’t used them in years and won’t try logging in just to see how this affects them.
I’ve never used Threads, TikTok, Kick, or Instagram, to round out the list of platforms specifically mentioned by eSafety.
Haha! I went through the ABC list from the link above as well!
The other one I’m worried about is Github 🥹 . It’s an invaluable information resource, and even if I don’t contribute source code, I like to help with answers to issues where I can, and if there’s issues, I like to point those out as well.
If github tries to check me, i’ll go right back to using it without an account
LinkedIn has been specifically mentioned as exempt. I can only assume GitHub would be the same. It’s more work-related and less social than LI is.
StackExchange might be a more interesting case though. And the broader StackOverflow network.
GitHub was being considered but is not currently on the list. Currently is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
OK, there was an earlier (incorrect) comment in a thread that said it was included, but I traced back to a source, and it says Github is exempt. Phew!
Also regretting, because I can’t find a ‘disable notification’ lol