I’m asking for public policy ideas here. A lot of countries are enacting age verification now. But of course this is a privacy nightmare and is ripe for abuse. At the same time though, I also understand why people are concerned with how kids are using social media. These products are designed to be addictive and are known to cause body image issues and so forth. So what’s the middle ground? How can we protect kids from the harms of social media in a way that respects everyone’s privacy?

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    It probably would be for the large instances. But, even though I’m using one of the large ones, I can’t help but wonder if it wouldn’t still be better for society as a whole.

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      Yeah and honestly it would probably be good for the fediverse if the big instances broke up into smaller ones. It would make things even more decentralized