Age verification becomes more common. Australia, France, etc. introduce such laws to ban children below 15 years from social media platforms, to protect them.
Will these laws also be relevant to fediverse/lemmy specifically?
Personally I think these laws will focus on the big platforms at first (facebook/meta, youtube, discord, instagramm), which will force younger users with technical skills onto smaller and niche sites. Over time focus on this question will increase for the fediverse.
Each instance can decide whether to enforce any age restriction law, and possibly get banned in whatever country if they don’t apply by it. Seeing how most websites wipe their butt with GDPR however it likely means the age-verification will only be enforced hard on the big social media networks like Facebook where mass tracking happens.