I’ve seen multiple requests for nsfw lemmy communities like reddit has. I live in Germany, and I think you are required to verify that the users that see porn content are above the age of 18. Does Lemmy has or plan to have a feature for that? Maybe this should be an issue on github?
Yeah. The “software” being totally in the position of linking you, the person, with porn, the content, and linking that. Recording that. Permanently. I see no difference between using your actual ID and your proposal.
The actual problem with using your ID (or your magical solution, it’s all the same) to identify for porn, is that you cannot tell when the government will rule that porn is unlawful, effective retroactively, with you having to bear the punishment, out of nowhere.
You (OP) being German, I think you should be more sensitive to that. It’s not like you didn’t have history lessons about the last time this kinda thing happened… Oder?
And as for kids… I put protections in place (forcing safe search via DNS, blackholing certain hosts, etc) for my kids, this isn’t actually so hard to do. And quite effective. The day they can bypass that, they’ll sure be old enough for porn, or even the much more harmful content the internet has to “offer”…