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WHAT the FUCK mastodon?!?!?!?!
do NOT do the fucking age verification bullshit what the fuck is wrong with you
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/connecting-the-world-through-thriving-online-communities/
#AgeVerification #mastodon #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #fediverse
Do they? There’s one thing to make it law, another thing to enforce it. OSA in the UK has been around since last July and managed to do nothing other than pick a fight with 4chan and get nowhere. I seem to recall someone mentioned Lemmy to Ofcom in a discussion regarding OSA and they were literally like “What’s a Lemmy?”
How on earth do you imagine a regulator is going to work out how to deal with 50+ federated instances (for instance)?
I mean if they can really just do nothing, then that is also something it would be good to be sure about.
Nintendo has shown that it is possible to attack open source projects at the repository level, and while that wouldn’t necessarily stop development, it would be a step down to force development technically “underground”.
And if instances have to start being regularly replaced, that WILL cause attrition.
I just think this is a logistical dead-end for regulators who may rely on the chilling effect of the thought of being targeted rather than actually being targeted. Unless the Fediverse somehow becomes massive, I don’t see that it’ll ever enter their eyes. Especially as many places will be based in the USA who is the least likely country to implement these laws, and the most hostile to any threats from foreign regulators (see again the 4chan example).
Wikipedia took UK to court over the fear of being targeted, it was dismissed purely on the basis of “Well they haven’t done anything to you yet”. And Ofcom clearly hasn’t got the balls to do it.
I mean… They have to.
Countries are making it law, so sooner or later, fedi projects are going to have to deal with that crap.
Do they? There’s one thing to make it law, another thing to enforce it. OSA in the UK has been around since last July and managed to do nothing other than pick a fight with 4chan and get nowhere. I seem to recall someone mentioned Lemmy to Ofcom in a discussion regarding OSA and they were literally like “What’s a Lemmy?”
How on earth do you imagine a regulator is going to work out how to deal with 50+ federated instances (for instance)?
I mean if they can really just do nothing, then that is also something it would be good to be sure about.
Nintendo has shown that it is possible to attack open source projects at the repository level, and while that wouldn’t necessarily stop development, it would be a step down to force development technically “underground”.
And if instances have to start being regularly replaced, that WILL cause attrition.
I’m out of the loop. What happened there?
Probably talking about Nintendos recent re-crackdown on the repos of Switch emulators.
I just think this is a logistical dead-end for regulators who may rely on the chilling effect of the thought of being targeted rather than actually being targeted. Unless the Fediverse somehow becomes massive, I don’t see that it’ll ever enter their eyes. Especially as many places will be based in the USA who is the least likely country to implement these laws, and the most hostile to any threats from foreign regulators (see again the 4chan example).
uh, what?
Yes? USA is the least likely to do this. Porn laws in various states don’t apply to social media.
Other attempts have been stuck in legislative hell, been unenforced or have court cases challenging their legality (Mississipi)
US Tech firms profit the most from it, the verification data lands on some palantir server - as the recent discord fiasco implied.
Still waiting for wikipedia to block itself in UK.
Wikipedia took UK to court over the fear of being targeted, it was dismissed purely on the basis of “Well they haven’t done anything to you yet”. And Ofcom clearly hasn’t got the balls to do it.