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Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws (techcrunch.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/mastodon@lemmy.world
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The statement follows a lively back-and-forth conversation earlier this week between Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko and Bluesky board member and journalist Mike Masnick. In the conversation, published on their respective social networks, Rochko claimed, “there is nobody that can decide for the fediverse to block Mississippi.” (The Fediverse is the decentralized social network that includes Mastodon and other services, and is powered by the ActivityPub protocol.)

“And this is why real decentralization matters,” said Rochko.

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[–] 6 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

They'll need to be careful. Both BlueSky and X may launch covert, bot-powered attacks to try to take down or cripple the largest Mastodon instances. I am also concerned about GitHub (many projects are run by very few devs who aren't invincible and can get scammed into accidentally including malware in an official update), and Lemmy, similarly, and now Android's closing ecosystem.

The Web is becoming so nuts lately... Capitalism is truly cancerous and ruthless. I don't know what solution there is to this madness... maybe just Linux-everything and a return to local intranets instead of the Internet, but that has its own numerous challenges...

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    My main gripe is that these massive tech companies are built on the backs of FOSS while their contribution to open source is minuscule compared to profits. They ruthlessly monetize everything as you put it: the employees, the code, your data, your time, and for what? How does this actually make our lives better in a meaningful way?

    The fediverse is the next step in taking the web back so that it can start working for humans again. I hope it can stand up to big tech and the lawmakers in their pockets. We can be sure they will fight like hell when money is on the line.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Why would one non-commercial social media platform (Bsky) attack another non-commercial social media platform? I don't see any upside.

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