Teenagers now get banned if they tell their age anyway: [email protected]
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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And what's the problem with that?
Laws don't currently make a concession for federated social media. If the law in an instance's jurisdiction says that users on a platform must be of a certain age, then for practical/enforcement purposes it makes no difference if they're local or federated.
FWIW, I also ban people under age 18 on my instance (local and federated). Obviously I can't know everyone's age, but if someone offers it and I become aware, and it's below the minimum age set in our policy, then they're banned until they're of age - simple as that.
I'm in the US, so 13 is the minimum age by law for most services (COPPA), and there's various grumblings to increase the age specifically for social media, so I'm playing it safe with 18 which is the age you're legally considered an adult.
Considering some of the stuff that gets posted here (legitimately and via bad actors), then my legal liabilities are less as I'm going out of my way to only serve adults on the platform. Mind you, I'm running this as a hobby / volunteer and do not have a team of lawyers on hand.
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Ah yes, of course other generations are much better with technology than today's teens.
They are, teenagers (saying this as a teenager) are hopeless. Tech became so easy to use that anything requiring a tiny bit of effort is impossible for these people.
Its the same as its always been. There was always a small subset of the population interested and developing computer sciences. There was never this time where all the youngins knew computers like they did breathing. That was a fallacy.
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At 14, me and most of my peers could navigate a file system on DOS, format floppies, install games from setup disks, and edit autoexec.bat files.
Yes, there is a huge difference between the teens of today and the teens of 25 years ago. Technological illiteracy is real thanks to the iPhone era and UIs becoming stupid simple to use.
The "iPad kids" meme didn't originate from thin air.
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Play with fire, get burned.
If you can't take it, get the fuck out.
You people still get into arguments online? Discussions, sure.. but arguments? o.O
YOU GET INTO INTERNET ARGUMENTS ALL THE TIME, YOU FUNGDARK! YOU'RE IN ONE NOW!
Ah cool hang on, just let me get some snacks and a drink before we get in to it.
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I've long assumed that many (most?) of the tankies, and of hexbear's userbase in general, are teens.
You would probably be right. Teenagers change political ideologies every other month.
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Why do you think teens are generally stupid?
As a teenager, I get in stupid arguments making stupid points because in my head, being right is important.
not teens, arguments (as in wasted effort to textually convince or defeat a faceless web foe) are usually stupid
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I'd say that a lot of the accounts which do a lot of posting/commenting are run by teenagers
because most adults probably wouldn't have the time for that much posting.
Challenge accepted.