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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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago (16 children)

So in this whole embarrassing dick measuring contest Eugen was wrong and Mike Masnick was right, then. Turns out "real decentralization" or not, Masto/Fedi's structure doesn't do anything to bypass this nonsense.

This is not new. People constanty claim AP and Fedi have benefits or features just for being decentralized that they absolutely do not have, but I have to admit I'm kinda shocked that Eugen will do that exact thing without any more self-awareness than the average Masto user. He should know better.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

What's wrong with your own personal 2M band radio network? Or just bring back CB culture. It's in the name: Citizen's Band...

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

* 10,000

Some lawyer on Capitol Hill: "Hmm..."

Not if, when.

Who knows, the same demand may be given of certain other federated social media sites in a few months.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

The thing is that works fine for the people pushing this kind of legislation. They hate how easy it is right now to spread inflammation and opinions, how quickly people can organize. This isolates their little fiefdoms and makes them easier to control.

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