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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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Could you be responsible for what someone else does while your using the network then?

[–] hisao@ani.social 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Only if you're deliberately running an exit node (doing so requires special setup).

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Sorry, I meant in i2p

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

no, unless you run an outproxy. traffic of other routers that goes trough yours is encrypted in multiple layers, so you are not responsible for what that traffic holds.

[–] hisao@ani.social 2 points 10 hours ago

Pretty much impossible within I2P