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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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 72 points 2 days ago (7 children)

We need more federation and P2P in everything.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 33 points 2 days ago (6 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 2 days ago (5 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...)

[–] humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 4 points 1 day 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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