Unfortunately my interest in the topics does not extend far enough to be the one digging through statistics and press releases. In the 1-9-90 I'm a 9.

Lemmy isn't enough, and that's fine.

Find you some old school internet forums. They're still out there, and it's not quite as much a "one Boomer and his 2 buddies" as you might expect.

There will still be dumbfucks who will do it happily

Mood.

Zero-knowledge proofs and anonymous attestation - the problem is you still have to prove your identity and age to some trusted entity using a certificate, similar to a physical ID. But if you can get that, you can then anonymously prove your age. Assuming the verifying site trusts your issuer. Also assuming they trust you didn't borrow somebody else's device. Also assuming they don't ask for more and more proofs until they can identify you anyway.

(I am a 6 on a good day, but I don't brag about it)

You should not disclose your age on the internet, my fellow human. This place is full of creeps. In any case, I hope you may find fun and interesting things in lemmy. Also, if you want to contribute, that'd be great!

stay cool :)

There might be more sports discourse if you participated in it you know.

In a literal sense sure, but not in a way that matters. As an example: The New England Patriots subreddit has 900k subs. It has dozens of posts made in the last 24 hours, with anywhere between 5 and 200 comments on each. The largest Patriots community here, patriots@lemmy.ml, has 338 subs and literally no activity in the last 9 months. Five weeks into the season!

That's not a problem that can be fixed by one person's can-do attitude, that's a problem of scale. Lemmy needs to grow 100 times over to even approach that kind of experience.

Now, I don't think lemmy needs to feel like reddit. But I also think it's small-minded to be like "just stop using reddit" as if there were viable alternatives.

I remember back before there was enough football fans to even justify team specific subs on reddit. It didn't happen by magic. More people kept talking, that attracted more people, and so on.

The point being that no community has ever grown without participation. If you want more people talking about football you got to actually talk about football. I don't know if I've ever seen you in the NFL community. There was a game thread just a few days ago, you could have talked about the Patriots in that thread. They were playing.

Though I do agree the propensity of people on the fediverse who try to create little niche communities right away is a giant failing. Instead of doing it naturally and organically by making larger General communities that eventually get big enough to split off they try to create little ones right away and that fragments everything. I wish there was some way to stop that, or at least delete dead communities.

Sadly there's nothing many people in the communities here. I would live fo vet rid of it completely but it doesn't seem that I'd be able to get as much help here, e.g. about my motorbike, as on reddit - it has a dedicated community there with quite a lot of people wich sadly isn't happening any time soon here.

I wouldn't really put it like that. There a reason many people who just don't understand it.

I bought a lock for my house. A professional locksmith can easily call me a dumb fuck for choosing that one but with the knowledge I had I chose the best option I could think of.

There also not safe, but we're very sorry for the leak which got the IDs of 10 000 of our customers.

Didn't Pesona even get caught in a lie just like this in the past?

Yeah, one thing is a bank or a government and another is this... Everyone and their mother will have my id and I have to believe it will be safe?

What about the kids? How is their data protected with these systems where security it quite often an afterthought?

Also - they apparently think I'm a kid, why are they still serving me targetted ads? "What about the kids"?

it's InTeRnAtIoNaL - yes, and I'm in the EU, noone cares...

I hought its possible on reddit too? Good catch, a wrote this angry and tired and I use an app that I'm not familiar with. Great time!

EU has some controversy RN over trying to do this.

They want to make an app that does this basically.

It loads/verifies your ID/passport and creates a signature /key valid for some time. Then if some app wants to verify your age it derives a key/signature/whatever with your age bracket attached and the app is happy knowing that you're e.g. 15-18, that the app used a valid signature and apparently nothing else.

There's supposed to be a FOSS implementation of it somewhere too.

I do feline it one bit and I don't remember the exact mechanism it's supposed to be, but at the very least this appears to try to be actually for the kids. However someone might still be able to bakr in calling home (the app is the trusted party here) so a government might be able to log that person xyz logged into pornhub or something.

Reddit's philosophy is more that trolls could edit to put nasty things in the title. Lemmy seems to have a bit more freedom for posting :)