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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[–] limer@lemmy.ml 152 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (23 children)

I agree with mastodon, even though eventually Texas will enact similar legislation forcing me to use a vpn to read it

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 2 weeks ago (22 children)

Woudn't it be smarter to just leave the hellhole that is Texas? Either to the north or to the south, leaving is a win.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Rather than encourage people to leave, we should encourage more enlightened people to move there, and change the political climate. A lot of states are closer to flipping than people think, and Texas is one of them.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So far their efforts in various forms of voter suppression have prevented that, and at the same time more people equals more congressional seats.

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