I’ve seen multiple requests for nsfw lemmy communities like reddit has. I live in Germany, and I think you are required to verify that the users that see porn content are above the age of 18. Does Lemmy has or plan to have a feature for that? Maybe this should be an issue on github?
That would be an interesting approach, but browsers are easily switched (to a “jailbroken” one) and I wouldn’t trust windows with such information… Linux would be fine, but I guess the linux community would at least be torn on this one (though I might ofc be wrong)
like others said, there are downsides to every approach. Browser based would probably be the most reliable though, the bar for going around it would require a separate device or someone knowing how to install a completely different OS, under the age of 18, without their parents knowledge.
Which of course I knew how to do back in the days of Windows XP, but again that’s a very high bar for most people.
I can see Lemmy taking an official approach of “We’ll wait for that” because otherwise it’s scanning IDs on one end of the spectrum and the other end is a button that says “Yeah I’m totally over 18”
If you’re old enough to get around those controls, you’re old enough to view porn, frankly. It’s like a rite of passage that I went through 15 years ago… the parental controls were also much worse then, so it’s arguably more effective now.
Exactly my approach.
From what I understand it would work as other parental controls like on streaming services - i.e. parents of minors would configure the browser so it cannot open “inappropriate” content. The information wouldn’t need to leave the device ever.