I have just been tossed off Reddit. No bad behaviour but Reddit suspects I am not old enough. I have been an adult for quite a few years. Note that age verification is not (yet) required under EU law.
The age verification on Reddit runs through a third party which is associated with Palantir. I will not do this, and there’s enough data associated with my account to show I’m an adult.
In general I am extremely sceptical of giving this level of personal information to any third party but especially a company that just cannot be trusted and has proven itself to be a destructive force in the world. I would not recommend anyone to use this, even if it may lose you access to platforms.
On Reddit there have been concerns among the various European subs and its community. I have encouraged various mods to collectively search for a solution. A move to Lemmy seems the obvious one - also just for the sake of supporting European tech and platforms. Alas, none have acted. The best I got was ‘good idea, we’ll look into it’.
My guess is I am far from the only one to lose access, if not already than soon the same will happen to other users. It may destroy the community that exists there, and my guess is that it’s the largest online truly pan-European community.
Anyway, I’ve signed up for Lemmy / europe.pub a while ago and am eager to use it instead of Reddit. I just hope this place becomes a little more lively.
That feels a lot more welcoming, thanks.
I only used Reddit because of the European community, and by extension the non-US American community. As I said in the post, for now it is by far the largest online community of its kind and genuinely interesting conversations are happening there. European politics but also a strong buyfromEU community.
It’s a difficult issue because many in the community want to move but no one wants to make the move because a lack of community. It could be coordinated and I have tried to encourage people to do so, but sadly no success so far. And if people drop off, like I have, it becomes difficult to find them back.
Little over a year ago I made the swap to Linux myself and been actively degoogling. I went for Proton and Libre Office. Youtube and Android are the big issues. There simply is no equivalent to Youtube (in content at least) but I use Firefox + uBlock or on my phone Morphe which makes it sort of usable.
I’ve looked into Graphene and other options but I struggle being able to use regular apps, banking most notable. For now I decided to leave it but when the time comes to replace my phone I will do everything I can to ditch Android (and obviously iOS is out of the question too).
I’ve heard of piefed, but let me take it slow one platform at a time unless you have a specific reason to suggest it?
Dear person,
I vaguely remember a community that was started in the Kortrijk Belgium area, does it still exist?
Piefed map will not work at the moment, can’t check it.
Bank apps ,check them on graphene site ,2 out off my 3 bancapps works fine on graphene
You can just call me lieven?
I have no specific links to Belgium but if it’s a nice community I might?