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And they were in her district.

Ive already got xmpp, its more a client thing for them I think.

The discord-esque look I think works. Though if you’ve got a client rec for xmpp with a similar feel, for that I’m all ears.

https://github.com/fluxerapp/fluxer

Neat

Maybe I can spin something up for family to use instead of SMS.

Depends on what I’m doing.

Workstation or server will be Debian. Personal devices are either Debian or Arch.

I’d prioritize Debian if I could only pick one for all options.

Subscribed - New - if I’m subscribed, I’m going to look at all of it, so new is best.

All - Top/6hrs - All I’m looking for what has been interesting to others, maybe find a new subscription, maybe looking at things I don’t want to subscribe to (like some political news comms, where I want to read but dont want it to take over my subscription feed).

Local - Scaled - just handy for finding interesting local comms IMO.

Which they are already doing in the shittiest way possible, and is only a small part of the problem the lawsuit notes.

Which is why I’ve been asking, they can’t answer because they dont know what they are talking about, they are concerned about a single (almost tangential) element of the problem - which Roblox already is doing, and only because they keep getting sued for catering to predators.

They did it to avoid suits, which is what I said.

Suggesting its anything other than avoiding consequences (to their profits) is misleading to the point of maliciousness.

Did you not read the part where I pointed out that it was Roblox who implemented that by choice?

That this is how Roblox decided to try and avoid lawsuits for catering to predators?

That these measures, as noted in the suit, do absolutely nothing and are easily defeated?

That the issue goes far beyond their own decision to implement this form of age verification?

I have the same question and you still have not answered, youre answering a question that I didnt ask that is unrelated.

What rights are being signed away by this lawsuit?

Edit: about/avoid autocorrect shenanigans.

Thats not the only means of age verification.

Do you know how they are doing verification currently? Because I bet you won’t like it.

Mandatory facial verification, processed by AI. This was the response made by Roblox to them being sued over having nonfunctional controls for parents, and doing nothing about the predators on their platform.

So I’ll ask again - what rights do you think are being taken away here?

Edit: Just going to add this bit here.

Tech journalist and former CNET senior writer Casey Newton asked what Baszucki (CEO) thinks of the “problem of predators” on the platform

The response:

We think of it not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity as well.

This is not an “age verification” thing. This is a platform catering to predators.

Set parental controls

This is what they are suing about.

Don’t sign away the rights of other adults

What rights do you think are being “signed away” in this lawsuit about Roblox not providing functional parental controls and moderation?

I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding of what is actually happening here.

Considering who is behind it, I have no interest in it.