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I'm literally going around trying out old school forum sites this week.
Car forums are still alive and well because they're a great repository of knowledge. There are plenty of computing forums too still.
Yep, and every one of them already complies with age verification laws so as new laws are added they're going to comply with those as well. There are very few web admins / sysops / site operators out there who are willing, or even able, to buck these kinds of national laws.
Let us know what you find. I'm ready to go back to the 90s/early 2000s internet. Golden era of the internet.
Why do you assume that the old school forums are going to get exempted? They are going to get on the bus or get run over by it just like everywhere else. Government has already proven that they can, and will, regulate those forums.
I am already browsing the "old way", since the mess with reddit...
I found out there is a forum for everything. It's not centralized in one website, but it's not that different than browsing /r/whatever you know.
More often than not, the discussions are more intelligent and on point too.
For my doom-scrolling needs, Lemmy does the job.
Lemmy will be pressured into age verification also and most hosts will crumble. $50M per caught infraction is wild.
We gonna end up going back to libraries. Which actually would be cool as fuck. Like Yentl when all those dudes are hanging out in a big ass room talking philosophy. It'll re-spark the postal service. Live music will thrive. Coz everyone will be like fuck the internet, we'll do it live.
Many fediverse hosts will make an effort to stay open by shifting their servers to countries that are out of reach of verification and law enforcement but that will only last so long.
Then just self host
ah ha! Guess that's how we beat the system. People would need to sub to your instance though for you to post content right?
What would the pros and cons be?
I think there is some way to automatically forward your content but I don't self host and am not an expert.
Pros are that while you could be "defederated", you can't be banned. You make any decisions and could also let others use your system.