LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
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Add age verification
I currently log in using my Googlemail account. It looks like you can verify your age by uploading valid ID to Google. I assume you can then restrict accounts under a certain age? Would this then pass responsibility on to them?
pifko-
Not really.
I run this platform...so I would need to age verify everyone using this platform.
I'm sure there's some way to get agreements in place that a Google profile with some specific OAuth scope set to indicate age verification is done would suffice.
But... doesn't that feel unsatisfying to you? Would I need to drive every user to have a Google account? Now access to this site is controlled by a third party and we're dependant on them.
The work arounds and technical steps to mitigate the identified risks... do seem to kill the essence of these types of websites.
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I don't want to send my ID to Google to use a bike forum.
Fucking alcohol websites have some stupid age "verify" requirement. I don't see them being hassled to request government id.
Velocio
hippy
Not enough.
But the things that create issues and the most obvious actions:
We'd still have the risk of vulnerable individuals experiencing harm, and honestly that's just society at large.
And the forum would now be a very very different beast, a public only, text only message board... with age verification.
This is where any of these steps start hitting the lines of what I don't wish to do, I don't wish to intentionally cripple the site. I find that unacceptable.