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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[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Like Metastatic on LoRA?

Or maybe we'll use software defined radios (SDR) to transmit on other unregulated bands (as a hacker, you can often force the software to believe it's in the wrong region to transmit on bands the FTC didn't approve, as long as it's legal somewhere.)

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't know there were unregulated bands. I thought pretty much everything except 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz required licensing and those two were technically unlicensed, but still regulated.

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

What's in a name? Legally speaking, your brain and nervous system would be classified as an 'unintentional radiator' (MRIs work because of this fact) and as such would fall under regulated devices if we weren't legal persons.

I used 'unregulated' (errantly if you insist) to mean both unlicensed and also use cases where FCC isn't actively enforcing the regulations on the books, cause technically virtually everything is 'regulated'.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 points 17 hours ago

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks!

[–] errer@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Meshtastic will never replicate anything like the modern internet. It’s slower than 1980s dialup data speeds. Text messaging, maybe…but you ain’t sending a video through it, that’s for sure.