Not BlueSky specific, but I am getting ready to nuke my accounts on social media and other websites as soon as they start requiring said verifications.
I truly don't what to expect from this trend.
> If your account is more than ten years old, we will assume you are currently over 18.
Anecdotal but I lived in Krakow, Poland for some months years ago, back then, for some goddamned reason, the vast majority of the room rentals for foreigners were advertised and managed through Facebook. I didn't have a Facebook account and it was required to verify my ID to make one.
I spent more than a goddamned month living in hostels before biting the bullet and I still dislike that I ended up making one. The day any of these services require an ID is the day I drop it, I don't consider this a preference, I consider this ethics. It's not about me liking it or not, I honestly believe that anyone going through with that is making a worse world.
maybe they mean a captcha like "do the taxes for this guy"
e.g. this December a ban for social media for anyone <16y takes effect in Australia. They also removed the power from parents to consent that younger children are allowed to use social media. They require "reasonable" steps to check the age, and nearly did require id checks. Even through they in the end didn't require it but a simple captcha or similar clearly won't be enough.
This is the way, folks.
It's possible to do all of this without permission, it's just hard...