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 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours 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 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

For the last 20+ years, I've been trying to get people to understand the point of free and open formats with pretty much zero success. For the most, they just don't care if somebody else owns all they data. Maybe if something really bad was to happen to them or a loved one as a result, they'd change their mind. Then I'd get to tell them "that's what I've been telling you for literally decades", but what would be the point?

Not technical people will never get it.