Online age verification isn't the same as a quick ID flash: it's surveillance. These systems collect your data and undermine your ability to anonymously access and discuss sensitive topics online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/why-isnt-online-age-verification-just-showing-your-id-person
@eff Seems we could use a system where I own my data, and I allow a one-time query of my data. They can ask my data if I am old enough, and that's it. They otherwise do not need my data, meaning they do not store my data, that would be forbidden. No company really needs to store the data they have on their customers, when they could instead just ask my self-owned data when then need a small piece of my data, rather than think they get to own my data all the damn time.
re: @kevinashworth@mastodon.social
cc: @eff@mastodon.social
One of my stalled projects is effectively wrapping an ActivityPub feed around a Solid pod for a more digital-garden approach to Fedi. It stalled both because those aren't necessarily the easiest standards to reconcile in the finer details, and because #snac wound up filling most of the use cases I was wanting it for, but I do still want to get back to it at some point to allow better long-form essays, even beyond the control and flexibility that Solid would allow.
re: @kevinashworth@mastodon.social
@sam
The #Hubzilla people are sort of porting their concepts over to #ActivityPub as #ConversationContainers . It rebases an already-implemented idea on a standard. They are also doing something similar with their DID implementation, #MagicAuth.
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