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Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law — the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state — because it doesn’t have the means to do so.

The social non-profit explains that Mastodon doesn’t track its users, which makes it difficult to enforce such legislation. Nor does it want to use IP address-based blocks, as those would unfairly impact people who were traveling, it says.

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[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You mean "at which point, people will just say 'oh, ok'". (Assuming they even notice)

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago

"People" will just comply. Tech savvy people like us are the only ones that could circumvent it

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

One... Not so disappointing fact is that means at least the Internet will go back to the pre-social media era.

You can feel it here on Lemmy still. It exists.

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Yes it has its perks

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Except if the topic is wifi meshnets, no amount of tech savvyness will get you around an absence of other nodes nearby. General apathy is actually a huge problem here.

[-] Sl00k@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

I used to think about this via mesh networks as simply routers, but now with nostr, IPFS, atProto and that new BT messaging stuff Jack Dorsey is on. Technically you could utilize your phone as an access point to the mesh network as you move around the city and load all the comms in the background. The latency would be high, but it could work. Also with 5g tech nowadays long range mesh networks are much more feasible albeit probably expensive for a hobbyist.

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