Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch
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Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.

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.

  • altphoto@lemmy.todayEnglish
    26·
    15 hours ago

    P2P! I have been screaming this into every forum at reddit since last piece of shit president was president. See? This is why!

    • apftwb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      13 hours ago

      What P2P solutions exist that need more attention? I know PeerTube does some neat P2P stuff to keep server load down (if they ever had the traffic…)

      • sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        Nostr solves the centralized hosting problem the current fediverse has. It’s still being developed, though, and is mostly used by crypto bros at the moment.

      • humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.suEnglish
        41·
        4 hours ago

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        Use a free VPN (https://riseup.net/en/vpn) to download the game for free. I usually go for fitgirl repacks if they’re available. Then you and your buddies can connect to the same ‘server’ using Hamachi and play together.

        I recommend doing this with the new Halo collection and Baldur’s Gate 3 so you can see it’s possible, even with new and advanced games.

        Brains > wallets, don’t be a corporate simp.