No one under 18 years of age or under the regulated minimum age defined by your local law (whichever is higher), is allowed to use or access the website.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On my instance nobody younger than the admin is allowed.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

now i want to run my own instance purely to limit admission to those below 150cm or above 170cm

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 1 week ago

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On which instance? Australia has that as a law, from my understanding, and given your instance's ccTLD, I would assume the law applies to that instance.

[–] meowmeow@quokk.au 17 points 1 week ago

That’s from .world

Beehaw is 16

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That actually varies by instance, it's been an issue because the lead mod of several tiny communities is under 18 and had to move their communities to an instance they're actually allowed to be on.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

That actually varies by instance

Well, this community is on programming.dev and the rule here is:

1.3. You are at least 16 years old and over the regulated minimum age defined by your local law to access our services.

https://legal.programming.dev/docs/terms-of-service/