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Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws (techcrunch.com)
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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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[–] 35 points 11 months ago (1 child)

P2P! I have been screaming this into every forum at reddit since last piece of shit president was president. See? This is why!

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    What P2P solutions exist that need more attention? I know PeerTube does some neat P2P stuff to keep server load down (if they ever had the traffic...)

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    You can play multiplayer games with LAN support together for free using a program like Hamachi.

    Use a free VPN (https://riseup.net/en/vpn) to download the game for free. I usually go for fitgirl repacks if they're available. Then you and your buddies can connect to the same 'server' using Hamachi and play together.

    I recommend doing this with the new Halo collection and Baldur's Gate 3 so you can see it's possible, even with new and advanced games.

    Brains > wallets, don't be a corporate simp.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Keet, is a messaging app! It's in beta right now, but its already pretty stable and has a ton of promise!!

    More info= works kinda like torrents - your client's IP & connectivity info is encrypted, then distributed across their 'hyperDHT'. Users you've connected with can ping the DHT to get your current IP info, then you establish a direct connection to whoever you're chatting! File shares are also accomplished over that DHT, so you can send files of any size, even terabytes!

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