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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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days 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...)

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days 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!

[–] ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago

veilid is a framework designed for hosting completely anonymous P2P apps. They already have a chat app reference implementation - (think P2P signal) and there are others popping up like vdrop

[–] humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 3 points 4 days 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.

[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nostr solves the centralized hosting problem the current fediverse has. It's still being developed, though, and is mostly used by crypto bros at the moment.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 2 points 3 days ago

I am looking into Nostr, but the convos there are heavy on bitcoin and other crypto, not a big fan of that.