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Texas SCOPE act takes effect Sunday. How does Lemmy comply?(www.click2houston.com)

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“The SCOPE Act takes effect this Sunday, Sept. 1, and will require everyone to verify their age for social media.”

So how does this work with Lemmy? Is anyone in Texas just banned, is there some sort of third party ID service lined up…for every instance, lol.

But seriously, how does Lemmy (or the fediverse as a whole) comply? Is there some way it just doesn’t need to?

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SyntaxTerror@feddit.org
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It’s a social news aggregator. I assume the difference is, that this is to follow mainly news, whereas social media is to mainly follow people. In my 10 years of reddit and now Lemmy I never followed any account, I was just there for the niche topics and news aggregation.

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NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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I don’t know about you but I’m here for the comments sections, i.e. to socialize. That counts as social media IMO. Socializing with random users and not followed accounts, is still socializing.

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null@slrpnk.net
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Social News aggregator = social media.

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NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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I guess I disagree with “social media is to mainly follow people”. I think social media is for socializing, regardless of who it’s with. Sorry for the double reply.

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SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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You’ll note that Wikipedia has that article under the “Social Media” category.

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