#Tag · bonfire.cafe

Unlike #bluesky, #mastodon is not blocked centrally in Mississippi.

Glad to hear it.

It wouldn't have been technically possible anyway, since #mastodon is decentralized.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mastodon-says-it-doesnt-have-the-means-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws/

(Posting reply https://mastodon.social/@folkerschamel/115113652757352708, which wasn't bridged, again, but this time as new post to see if bridging is working then.)

#decentralization #activitypub #atproto #decentralizationwashing @canrith6696@mmasnick.bsky.social @Gargron @stinerman @ikuturso @glyph @pluralistic

Screenshot of the techcrunch article: "The social nonprofit 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."

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 weeks ago

@folkerschamel @canrith6696@mmasnick.bsky.social @Gargron @stinerman @ikuturso @glyph

For the record, BS also isn't centrally blocked - if you run your own server or use an alt client, there's no block

Folker

@folkerschamel@mastodon.social replied · 3 weeks ago

@pluralistic @canrith6696@mmasnick.bsky.social @Gargron @stinerman @ikuturso @glyph

"Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now" as by the company #bluesky Social, PB itself. See the original post of this thread.

Plain, simple, and correct.

Your post is what I mean by #decentralizationwashing: Claiming theoretical #decentralization, but without real-world relevance. Basically nobody is using an own Personal Data Servers or alt client. And wouldn't evade the block anyway.