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@janantos @benroyce @ariarhythmic @mellifluousbox @Mastodon @MastodonEngineering @Gargron
I believe that "credit score drops if you don't use the card" is an US speciality. At least I've never heard of it outside imported TV-shows.
But it's a good point to say that not everyone owns a credit/debit card that works online. Though how many of those people are on Mastodon, is anyone's guess.
@meowki @benroyce @ariarhythmic @mellifluousbox @Mastodon @MastodonEngineering @Gargron
Just so.
Also worth noting that some countries (at least my own) are enabling age-verification because you can't trust algorithms to show stuff people want/should see. If this is taken into account in the legistlation (which is still being written), then it wouldn't even apply to Mastodon.
Similar use-cases are probably found in other EU-countries, if not in Germany?
@ariarhythmic @benroyce @Mastodon @mellifluousbox
True, but have you considered that there are more ways to oppose fascist orders than just not applying them?
It's often much safer and/or profitable to implement a solution that follows the letter of the order and not the spirit.
Particularly in a situation like this where the order of implementation doesn't come from the fascists, or even (I think it's safe to say) collaborators.
@benroyce @ariarhythmic @Mastodon @mellifluousbox
Taking the hard-line with fascism is healthy, but pushing others to any course of action without knowing the cost to them seems non-strategic. (In this case: turning GmbH into latter-day Pirate Bay.)
No one battle will defeat fascism, but not fighting isn't the answer either. To push the allegory to the breaking point, we want sabotage and raiding, not cause a Verdun that will consume our future as surely as fascism will..
@benroyce @ariarhythmic @Mastodon @mellifluousbox
Yeah, I noticed the emoji, and I do understand they're problably really raw about the developments of the past few years. Particularly if they're in the States.
Opposing fascism is really healthy! I'm just concerned that jumping the gun with the GmbH leads to being ignored when sensible applications of age-checks (and what happens if you don't participate) are done.
This seems paramount.
@ariarhythmic @benroyce @Mastodon @mellifluousbox
Your definition may of course vary, but if age-check in itself is fascism, it becomes hard to run any community or society where people don't know a lot about each other by other means.
(Eg. a small town pub where "everybody knows your name".)
The question of fascism comes up when we start talking about how the age-check is made, and what other information gets shared in addition to age. Or how that age-check can be misused, even in theory.
@charlesdelavalleepoussin @Mastodon @mellifluousbox
There seems to be a lot of lgbtq+-people here, so there is at least some diversity.
If you mean skin colour, I don't know much this is about non-existence of not-whitepassing people, and how much it is them not writing in English?
How popular is fediverse in Latin America, Africa, Asia, anyway?
