got the notification to verify my age when trying to access NSFW posts or profiles already for a few weeks now, but as of today my whole account is blocked unless I verify. I guess that’s it then. Based in Austria btw, so there is no specific law in place that forces Reddit to implement this and I will definetly not give my personal information to Persona, a company that belongs to Peter Thiels Palantir group.
Yeah I get it. I dunno what the balance is. It needs to be fun for admins too - else they get burned out and you get the Reddit style power-trip types as the ones that stay. I’m generalizing heavily… But my point is I guess if the community takes the lead in reporting and blocking bad users we can all help the load of the mods, while working around the limitations of Lemmy’s design.
Hopefully it will improve in time, because Im not disagreeing that those elements exist and are a deterrent to newcomers.
Yeah I agree with that. I think ideally the real “balance” is going to swing in wildly different directions depending on the instance and what kind of experience it wants to provide.