And this is how it begins. We are but a few years from going down the same path as US. Complacency is our enemy - we need to sweat these small changes to stop the avalanche.

If that’s the only impact, then we can just turn off DM permissions. Suspicious that it would interfere with more features or visibility, but yeah, people would surely just leave then.

Actually is anyone else just thinking of deactivating/deleting their account over it? Like… this isn’t an essential platform at all for me

With sites like Bluesky using KWS (fined for breaches regarding child safety) to do the checks and over complying with the "rules" set down by your government - it's clearly got nothing to do with child safety and more to do with data collection of adults.

Since sending my reply, BS is now asking for my age verification. I’ll be able to read your DM when I’m “approved” as a a middle-aged woman I guess.

Sure!

Not quite a ritual, but kind of: instead of giving gifts at Xmas now, each person asks for / suggests a family activity instead. Last year mine was a road trip to The Lobster Shack, then we helped my sister paint their office, BIL wanted to share oysters on their new deck, etc.

That emergency and alert services (or anyone posting on a Meta site organically) expect people to see posts within a timely manner is ridiculous. So great to see things 4 days after the fact.

Glass half full: maybe it means they received so many emails that they got overwhelmed and stuffed up

What is wrong with the ALP?? Tell the Americans to go f@&k themselves. What are they going to do? Declare war on us? They are a failed state run by nutjobs.