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.



“People” will just comply. Tech savvy people like us are the only ones that could circumvent it
One… Not so disappointing fact is that means at least the Internet will go back to the pre-social media era.
You can feel it here on Lemmy still. It exists.
Yes it has its perks
Except we’ll have to keep using it because the rest of our families and friends are going to still be on there or pester us about why we aren’t there with them to share photos of your sister-in-law’s baby photos and videos and your aunt Tammy’s vacation photos.
Yup