We live in the UK. She didn’t go any further than this. I got her to download TOR and use the “old.Reddit” trick to bypass this so it was only mildly infuriating for her in the end
What about using lynx or eww?
You could use redlib.catsarch.com or redlib.lesbnyan.top
lesbnyan.top
I don’t understand fancy tech lingo and that sounds vaguely kinky.
It is.
It’s a portmanteau of lesbian and nyan.
Wow and you just taught me the definition of “portmanteau” in context too. I never really knew what that word meant but it sounds like a big fancy wooden piece of furniture.
It’s also one of those.
It’s a piece of luggage actually. Fun fact Portmanteau is itself a portmanteau of porter (to carry) and manteau (mantle).
Once more Reddit! Yea!!! Just delete your account and move along.
I would - if Reddit would allow me to log in.
I was banned 5 days ago for 6 days. Can I be strong enough not to go back? Please give me the strength to stay away.
I got a 3 day ban, 2nd offence, on my 6th account, after the 3-day ban I abandon the account.
Only took 6 weeks this time and I was watching myself. They have dishonest moderation At Site wide level and I do not want to use it at all either, unless maybe two Shuffle people to the fediverse.
They have dishonest moderation
The mods are also unaccountable. They can (and do) simply ignore your DMs asking for details or reconsideration of your ban. And even if they do respond, the reasoning will be a short gibberish response that you cannot appeal.
Also many will remove your comments without telling you, it appears to be posted, I learned reveddit showed you what was removed.
But yeah mods work for free so allowing their petty tyranny is a selling point of the gig, not sure how lemmy works, did see one dude that said banned user arguing with people on another instance.
The audience over there is definitely a lot less intelligent than we have over here. And the bots & reposts & even bots COMMENTING are probably an overwhelming majority of the audience over there. It’s sick & pointless & a waste of time & I must break the addiction.
I’m not gonna lie, I visit Reddit too, but without an account and in private, for 3 and only communities. Most of my time is Lemmy. You can start slowly like I do. People use to complain about dead niche communities here, but no one contributes like some users do every day here. Be the change and help communities grow, so you don’t have to go back to Reddit.
This sounds more like a “fuck UK age restriction laws” not reddit.
The UK’s age restriction laws online are now enforced under the Online Safety Act (OSA), which requires online platforms to verify the age of users before they access categories of “harmful” content, including pornography and content related to self-harm or eating disorders. Websites, apps, and services hosting such content must implement robust age checks, with platforms facing significant fines or blocking if they fail to comply. Methods for age verification can include facial age estimation, ID scanning, or credit card checks.
Methods for age verification can include facial age estimation
Can’t that be easily bypassed by using an older person for the selfie shot?
They did not call out the true mofivation of lawmakers so they are complicit.
Christ. Stop using fucking reddit already
The problem is that the vast majority of content and activity is on the more normie side of the web.
People still use X more than BlueSky or Mastodon, after all.
It’s where the porn is. Is my hypothesis.
To be fair it’s about the new UK nanny dictatorship law.
In theory lemmy should do the same and the UK government could sue and block access of any lemmy instance not following their ludicrous laws.
We would love to, if not for the accumulated knowledge which can’t be (easily) found elsewhere.
Honestly Lemmy gets mentally draining, constant political drama that is guaranteed to lean left, barely any non-partisan or neutral discussions happen here and god forbid anyone say anything that can be seen as conservative because a barrage of insults are certain to come your way.
While I support the Lemmy project there are quite a few communities that I had subscribed to on Reddit that are missing here.
something tells me you whining about not having enough conservative propaganda on a site, that wants nothing to do with it, go back to reddit.
My “whining” is because of people like /u/dickalan@lemmy.world. This is what makes Lemmy mentally draining, they’re hellbent on their political ideology and if you don’t conform you get ousted, fed to the fishes so to speak.
I hear you.
I’d never really encountered the nutty parts of progressive politics until coming to Lemmy. Often times you don’t need to say something conservative, but merely say something that challenges a poorly conceived thought bubble and you get piled on.
There’s a really strong sense of idealism here. A lot of users deal in absolutes and don’t seem able to engage with the nuance of life.
As anti-establishment and highly critical of the Democratic Party I have seen the exact same thing here is on Reddit
Yeah, I just want beast mode on his ass and will probably get that comment removed. I just posted above you, but I don’t care anymore.
There are orders of magnitude difference in the severity.
I had to make an account that had no news and tried to limit anything that could regularly get too political for mental health
I have a good word filter list that seems to do the trick. Apart from when the titles are “things am I right?” And the description is “this ^”, no word filter will work on that. Wish there was a politics tag.
Lemmy sucks it just sucks different, its the photo negative of truth social and anyone who thinks that this place isnt just a different echo chamber is deluded.
Bro, these are real people with real opinions and you’re just shitting on all of that like it’s nothing, and the truth social comparison, jump up your own ass
Yeah, right propaganda is blatant, untruth, and whipping men who feel insignificant into a frenzy, fuck off you weirdo, go find your safe space backthere on Reddit dip shit. You have the hallmark of a person that cannot control what information gets into their brain, you know, keyword blocks, or a any thing you can to save yourself the mental anguish you clearly feel on a daily basis that you subject yourself to, I feel no sympathy for people that Can’t control what triggers them, again fuck you in the face, I don’t care if I’m gonna get dinged here on Lemmy . I’ve said what I have to say.
You do realize you just proved me right.
god forbid anyone say anything that can be seen as conservative because a barrage of insults are certain to come your way.
Congrats you’re sticking in a round in a place you’re not wanted you’re clearly one in 1 million kid. Do you want to open yourself to more abuse You fucking glutton for punishment
Sheesh, you’re whipped.
No matter what happens, I always expect Lemmy to have the worse possible take.
I also don’t like that politics seems to spill into every community
This is the case on reddit too. Politics creeps into everything.
It’s weird that you complain about what you subject yourself to, that’s a sin according to the satanic Bible
I also don’t like that politics seems to spill into every community
Yes! This right bloody here, not everything needs to be political!
Unfortunately, everything is affected by politics.
By politics they mean anything that’s left-wing. Right-wing stuff like causal racism isn’t seen as political since it’s so normalized in America.
DING DING DING
Not really, need more popular hobby communities as they are often places that politics don’t impact
Politics, tech, and Star Trek are the only three topics on Lemmy in any significant numbers, and even tech is politics half the time. The gaming communities are mostly politics about gaming, the porn communities are mostly dead, and forget anything more specific (other than Trek of course.)
Because Lemmy is mostly just a political soapbox, there’s not enough actual non-political content.
post some non political content then. encourage others to.
Having apolitical fun over in !selfhosted@lemmy.world 😁
Edit: !imsorryjon@lemmy.world & !imaginarydragons@leminal.space look apolitical to me, too
I love it here but you gotta admit its like 50/50 politics and programming. It’s just like old old reddit
I want the Reddit from 5 years ago
Would you rather have a place where you can’t talk about it or else you get banned and any dissent is killed and banned and it’s slowly getting worse day by day?
Or a foss freedom free structure platform where people can ACTUALLY talk about what’s on their mind? Hmmmm?
Sounds like you have some privileges you maybe need to realize you have.
No you don’t understand, they didn’t say they weren’t on Lemmy, they are as you clearly noticed. So they do have access to all the political discourse they want when they want it.
They said that Lemmy is too politically dominated and that some communities only live on Reddit rn.
I kinda agree, I use Lemmy 99% of the time but when a new Poe league releases the poebuildsdiscussion has interesting information about the game, not having political discourse in that community is irrelevant since that’s now what’s about. I’d prefer if it was here but there clearly is no interest, as a transition was attempted with the API exodus and it failed.
Yah, he is saying there isn’t much variety in subject matter. Sadly I still have to go to reddit to find a lot of topics.
Reading a discussion thread about some obscure TV show that there is no communify for on Lemmy is… “privilage”?
“Anything you have access to that I don’t” = “privilege”
The term has been badly abused.
If there was some decent political discussion I wouldn’t mind it as much
The problem is that people here can’t stand to see anything they might disagree with.
right wingers and the tankies are the only ones bitching about how thier political discussion isnt being discussed. i dont care either way, as long as it doesnt becomes obnoxious
I once made the mistake of saying something against Luigi and had the comments jump on me. This is as much of an echo chamber as anywhere else.
You mean there are too many people who disagree with stuff they disagree with?
“Estimate age from selfie”?! Wtf have we become…
When I was 14, I looked like I was 20. When I was 20, I looked like I was 35. When I was 35, I looked like I was 50. You can’t determine someone’s actual age from a fucking photo. Jesus.
Am 45. Constantly get told by 20 somethings that I look 26-28. I still get carded…
/s couldn’t resist
Lol
My 25 year old SO got carded while my 19 year old wasn’t questioned when we were at a liquor store. I think because my brother had a big beard they assumed he must be old lol.
Yep, same. I’m not a fan of people thinking I’m not old and grumpy, but they usually find out.
When I was working at a local supermarket, we had the instructions to explicitly ask anyone for ID that we deemed 40 or younger, when they tried to buy tobacco or alcohol. For that exact reason.
I have perpetually looked like I’m 12 since 2008. That’s the most common number people always give me when they guess my age. I’m so sure an AI would somehow guess correctly.
Reddit doesn’t really care; they’re going to do the bare minimum legally so they can feed more ads and get more clicks.
Just send them a random selfie from the internet, no?
You nees to do a video looking left, right, saying some numbers. The companies that do the verification are owned by Peter thiell and co
Rofl what a piece of piss website
Reddit needs a better tagging system than just NSFW. It was pointless having a filter when you don’t subscribe to any porn subreddits and all the ones you are subscribed to don’t allow porn in the first place. It’s only natural people started using NSFW for other things, most notably spoilers, which I believe they’ve added in recent years. If you had the filter enabled, you ended up missing out on content.
It does need better tagging but honestly thats not the issue here. This is because of the new UK law, simple as.
Why not both?
They’re not mutually exclusive
True, but I dont want reddit’s shitty NSFW tagging system to distract from the important issue here
Also some shitty Republican states in the US.
Can’t have kids looking at teeth! Next thing you know, they’ll want to become, forgive me for this, dentists.
That’s a cavity in the law right there. Guess they don’t want us to brace ourselves for the harsh realities of molars online 😂
“You’re a rabid anti-dentite!”
Cant see that picture as it’s blocked in the UK.
Well, was it a photo of an adult tooth or a baby tooth? Adult teeth are too mature for the younguns.
Oi mate! Ya got a loicense fer dat dental advice?
Fun fact: I can’t see the screenshot as I’m in the UK and your instance has taken the maximally paranoid literal meaning of the OSA and blocked access just in case anything’s accidentally not flagged as NSFW.
The idiots here are your lawmakers and their supporters.
You know how everybody blames boomers for various things, which had nothing to do with them, they were merely victims of the capitalist corrupt systems they lived under? This is your generation’s failure to address the needs of the future. Good luck.
It’s really weird for you to start flinging divisive shit at someone who wasn’t being ageist to begin with, but if you wanna fling shit, start by telling me the average age of the parliament that passed this law.
taken the maximally paranoid literal meaning
Them people won’t get hung on a technicality. You have to be nuts not to be paranoid these days.
With how the law is written, if you think anyone might ever make a mistake (likely), think the government might ever bother going through the hassle of enforcing it (probably less likely if you’re not running a big website), and don’t have loads of spare money to pay huge fines with or to pay an age verification service with (likely), then blocking the UK is the only way to be compliant. It doesn’t require a technicality. The law just doesn’t have any leeway for honest minor mistakes or small hobbyist websites.
https://www.torproject.org/download/
Don’t forget to use obfs4 bridges
I wouldn’t bother with bridges honestly
If anything use snowflakes
Images should load from your local Lemmy instance right?
But checking now I see you, OP and the com are all from the same instance. So I’m confused.
No, OP is lemmings.world, not lemmy.world.
Oh shit, my bad. Was reading too fast.
But still, the image should load from your local instance right? So in that commenters case, lemmy.world right?
Edit: at least on my instance, it appears to go through a proxy on my local instance:
https://images.lemmy.zip/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmings.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F3b9a4c4b-3079-4e67-a5e2-0cd49074d81f.pngDo some other instances direct link images?
Proxying was added after a bunch of csam attacks, where every instance admin would have to block it themselves. Now with proxying an admin can either block it themselves or the original posting instance can block it.
Some instances use the image proxy and others don’t. It seems that mine doesn’t.
At least on lemmy we can just block instances that do idiotic things like that and still use the rest of the service
Reddit isn’t worth it any more IMO, It’s all just downvoting and moaning over everything. Yes that happens here but at least people seem to talk more.
Left 2 1/2 years ago, whenever I’m forced back because of some tech question I see the constant anger and anxiety in the comments. It may be smaller here but goddamn if it’s not more pleasant
Even worse, it’s all just corporate and nation-state shill accounts. They’re the only ones willing to put up with all the bullshit required to post.
I know they say half of Reddit is fake but I’m willing to bet it’s more, they can’t be be real people with some of the stuff they come out with.
It as way more interesting content than Lemmy
