baronvonj

Well, none of the people I know who have done it, have done it because of weight loss specifically.

What have been their reasons?

Well then get ready for nationalization of the AI companies with whom the military and intelligence agencies have contracts and have failed too big to bail.

There was a brief push for people to leave BlueSky right after a few people were banned right after the Charlie Kirk murder, but my observation is many people who flirted with Mastodon (look for the #fuckaas tag and accounts on the fuckaas.space instance) in that time stuck with BlueSky in the long run.

not for organizing resistance to corrupt governments, as it doesn’t have E2EE.

The problem with your comparison is that you’re physically sending your kids off with other people, and there are physical limitations on participation. Of course it’s encumbent on the organization employing those people to make sure they’re trustworthy (same for the adults who are volunteering to be responsible for the children). In the same way, Discord is responsible for making sure that their own employees aren’t abusing and preying on the users. They are expected to investigate any reports of abuse by either their employees, scouts, or adults volunteering. Just as Discord is expected to investigate any such reports, too. There are absolutely things to hold digital platforms accountable for to make things safer. But face scans and uploading government ID doesn’t accomplish that. We hold platforms to account by auditing their response to abuse reports and any failures in their privacy and security controls and if they can’t manage that then they should be dissolved.

Even just since I posted my comment, there’s now this new link making my front page on piefed

https://www.404media.co/free-tool-says-it-can-bypass-discords-age-verification-check-with-a-3d-model/

Residential IPs aren’t static. VPNs exist. Residential ISP proxy services exist. Cloud providers exist from every inhabited continent. Tor exists. Determined predators and bad actors will get on the platforms and can get verified at whatever age group they want.

If we pretend otherwise instead of educating the children on how to recognize predatory behavior then we haven’t protected them at all.

When Roblox rolled this out kids were using AI tools to perform the face scan. Kids have easy access to sneak their parents’ ID to upload in secret. Predators can use the same tactics. So we haven’t gained any security, but some people will be caught up with having their real data made vulnerable.

The only real solution is for the parents/guardians to be engaged and involved in their childrens’ lives. That means I have to occasionally invade their privacy and look at their communications, but more importantly it means I have to tell my children about the predators and what kinds of things predators will say to them. It’s impossible to child-proof the world around us, we have to world-proof the children themselves.

indeed they should not.

Corrupt governments in the past have been toppled thanks to organizing on discord

Matrix, Signal, Proton/Tuta are much better suited to that purpose.

Trying to sign up for days but I have yet to receive a verification email.

And following them … Emma Watson all throughout the Harry Potter series.

Swords!

depends on the person.

I thought departments couldn’t write their own regulations anymore.

This post made me think “if there’s lesbian porn for the male gaze, is there gay porn for the female gaze?”

for straight women it’s just the regular dude on dude gay porn. for some gay women, too.