If you live in Mississippi, you may have noticed that you are no longer able to log into your Bluesky or Dreamwidth accounts from within the state. That’s because, in a chilling early warning sign for the U.S., both social platforms decided to block all users in Mississippi from their services rather than risk hefty fines under the state’s oppressive age verification mandate.
  • 反いじめ戦隊@ani.socialEnglish
    2·
    9 hours ago

    both social platforms decided to block all users in Mississippi from their services rather than risk hefty fines under the state’s oppressive age verification mandate
    Bluesky was developed as a reference implementation of the AT Protocol, an open communication protocol for distributed social networks.[13]

    But I thought Bsky folks said it was decentralized. Where’s atproto.ms.gov?

    /s

    🤢

    lemmy.world/c/Technology is suç a terrible 🧵

    • Scoopta@programming.dev
      2·
      8 hours ago

      The problem is if this gets adopted on a large enough scale not even Tor will save us, all the exit nodes will be subject to censorship. Tor only works because there are some countries which have totally free and open internet. Unless you’re talking about moving completely to the darknet.

      • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
        3·
        5 hours ago

        Unless you’re talking about moving completely to the darknet.

        I really wish i2p would take off and people would seriously consider hosting stuff there.

        Like why is Lemmy and most federated social media not on the dark web? It would make so much more sense and be much more resilient to censorship.

        • Scoopta@programming.dev
          2·
          4 hours ago

          Because with Lemmy’s architecture darknet sites could not federate with clearnet sites as the end user’s browser fetches content directly from the federated instances.