Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

• MudMan@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We are focusing on mastodon.social because you jumped on a thread about mastodon.social confirming they won't be complying with Mississippi's age verification law, which in turn is a follow up to coverage of Bluesky doing the same thing. And also because Eugen Rochko jumped into that announcement to claim that Bluesky stepping away from that territory was an example of how Fedi's wider decentralization was an advantage, even though it turned out to no be an advantage at all.

  Why would we be talking about anything else? That's literally the topic. You may be looking for a different thread. If anything, the uncontrolled impulse to talk about the ways in which AP is more decentralized than AT whether that's relevant to the conversation or not is the exact communication mistake Eugene made. Which makes that weirder.

  To be clear, it doesn't matter where your instance is hosted. Mastodon.social is not hosted in Mississippi, either, it's hosted in Berlin. You're still taking on a TON of potential liability if you don't comply with their age verification or block that territory from access if the law stays in the books, just like you're risking a ton of liability if you breach GDPR even if your site isn't in the EU.

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  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The title says Mastodon, not mastodon.social, and it appears that Eugen was talking about the Fediverse or Mastodon, not mastodon.social specifically (hence the word decentralization, the discussion was not centralized on mastodon.social).

    I think people are mixing up the discussion between Mastodon vs mastodon.social too much.

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    • MudMan@fedia.io ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, the article is about Mastodon.social´s nonprofit following up with an official statement after not responding when approached about the original report.

      Eugen himself was just shitting on Bluesky, his entire comment was that Bluesky leaving showed "why true decentralization is important". Ironically, that whole pissing match ended up hinging about how much Eugen was focusing on Bluesky rather than their protocol, too. Turns out to be a popular deflection and it turns out to not change anything practical.

      You are retroactively trying to reinterpret the subject matter here to save face and I'm too tired right this minute to entertain it. We don't have to have a conversation, man, no hard feelings, but if you insist on having one here I'd appreciate if it wasn't about something else entirely.

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      • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No, the article is about Mastodon.social’s nonprofit

        Are you talking about Mastodon gGmbH? joinmastodon.org/de/about

        Mastodon gGmbH is a non-profit from Germany that develops the Mastodon software. Mastodon started in 2016 as an open-source project by Eugen Rochko

        github.com/mastodon

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