Mastodon's imminent new age gate functionality will not count as "highly effective age assurance" for the purposes of the UK's , because it relies on user-declared age.

And that's fine; not everything is about the UK or the OSA. But I know that someone will ask, so I'm getting in first!

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/d

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