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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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 38 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

So what do you propose? People who aren't able should set up nodes?

Also if wifi mesh is our last hope, oof

I say that as a freifunk participant

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago)

Also if wifi mesh is our last hope, oof

Yeah. What I propose is getting more people involved and caring about freedom preserving technologies before it gets to that point. A tiny minority of somewhat more tech literate people are not going to be magically immune to authoritarian checkmate scenarios through technical solutions alone.

[–] Sl00k@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Are there now legal means to do longer range communications? I thought the main limitation was you need to be licensed to do anything more than short range home wifi

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 points 7 hours ago

I mean it's all licensed by the frequency and antenna transmit power, so long distance is possible with the right choice of protocol, antenna and frequency you can get a surprisingly long distance with unlicensed spectrum. Ubiquity makes some directional antenna for wirelessly connecting 2 sites that operate in the 2.4 and 5ghz ranges that can connect over distances of multiple kilometers

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Except we'll have to keep using it because the rest of our families and friends are going to still be on there or pester us about why we aren't there with them to share photos of your sister-in-law's baby photos and videos and your aunt Tammy's vacation photos.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Yup

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 19 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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 7 points 12 hours ago

Yes it has its perks