This is mandated by UK law. If you created a node so that UK users can bypass this, you would be doing something illegal. You'd probably get defederated.

it already does it's the reason why lemmy.zip isn't accessible in the uk (though it still federates to other servers)

So uh, choosing an instance was too complicated, right?

According to your father ulrich.

Is the system opaque? Does someone else hold the private encryption keys? Could unencrypted data leak from the company and expose users?

If any of those answers are "yes", then assume it's already compromised by a government and unsafe.

What makes you think this doesn't apply to Mastodon instances?

Good for them. Too many goddamn kids on the internet with dumbass ideas and shitty grammar and yolos and skibidy rizz, why back in my day we have to go uphill both ways to the internet cafe before we could argue with a strawman online

There is no encryption involved. They just give you a token that verifies your age and you present the token to the site.

But you have to submit evidence of age to some site, right? So where does that evidence (your ID) get sent to or stored? Once it's sent, are you sure it's not stored? Is the token unique or traceable to you?

I honestly don't know, and when I don't know, I have to assume it's not staying private.

Your evidence is already stored with the gov, regardless of the any age verification systems. And the gov provides your token. If you honestly don't know, you should research instead of making assumptions.

European Digital Identity

Official GitHub Organization of the European Digital Identity project. - European Digital Identity

GitHub (github.com)

Fair enough. Thanks for the info.

Fuck this shit

The UK has been in lock step with the US in terms of moronic voters and stupid leaders.

The UK is in Europe, but it's closer to the morons in Texas than Switzerland.