Per the very first reply on their thread discussing it in their forums, which I linked directly to for the post title:
We’ll NEVER require any verification or identification from the user.
However, what’s gonna happen should the attempts to age-gate the XDG portal screw over alt-init distros like Artix too? My guess is maybe they start blocking regions which force age gating like Arch Linux 32 is doing.


i think we let it happen when we collectively chose not to push back against the us government’s capture of the kernel project when they forced its maintainers to kicked out russian developers; pastor niemoller explains it best: