Security Writer 
@jerry just thinking through the inevitable nightmares inbound from UK, EU, and US age verification requirements for social media, where does this land us on Infosec.exchange?
Early days I know, but curious on your thoughts.
Jerry 🦙💝🦙@SecurityWriter it’s hard to say. Outside of the U.K., most country laws place limits of applicability so that they are really focused on larger platforms. We don’t have a U.K. presence and it seems very unlikely we will pop on their radar.
Mastodon recently added a requirement to add your age on signup and lets admins set a minimum age, but that’s basically cosmetic. I don’t see a future where we can do anything more than that. If it becomes too legally perilous to continue, I and likely most all other operators will close shop. I love yall, but I’m not sitting in jail to protest a policy that I have no hope of changing.
Anyhow, things like this have happened every few months for the now 9 years I’ve been running the place and it’s never once been an issue.
@jerry agreed.
I’d most likely spin up my own instance just for myself.
Nobody is expecting you to go above and beyond the amazing work you put into this place already.