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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[–] hisao@ani.social 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

In my experience, if you have anything but "Network: OK" status (for example, "Network: Firewalled"), it's not working properly. If you're behind a VPN, you need to port-forward and properly configure a port in I2P config/settings. Another sign that it's misconfigured is 0 participating tunnels. This is how properly configured I2P network statistics looks like with high internet bandwidth:

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks. Somehow the network actually seems to be working pretty well for me now, not sure why it wasn't before.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

sometimes routers go offline before their routing commitments expire (12 minutes). maybe all your HTTP proxy tunnels got disconnected. Increasing the backup tunnel count could help