Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mastodon-says-it-doesnt-have-the-means-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws/
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Mississippi, Bluesky, Blacksky, the ATmosphere, Mastodon, and the Fediverse
New on The Nexus of Privacy!
As well as a summary of the situation (both in the ATmosphere and the Fediverse) and links to a bunch of interesting discussions, there's also a discussion of just why age verification laws are so bad.
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Mississippi, Bluesky, Blacksky, the ATmosphere, Mastodon, and the Fediverse
New on The Nexus of Privacy!
As well as a summary of the situation (both in the ATmosphere and the Fediverse) and links to a bunch of interesting discussions, there's also a discussion of just why age verification laws are so bad.
And a companion piece: Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?
https://privacy.thenexus.today/can-we-please-stop-arguing-about-whether-bluesky-is-decentralized/
"People who saw Bluesky as centralized nine months ago still see Bluesky as centralized. People who saw Bluesky as decentralized (or decentralizing) nine months ago still see Bluesky as decentralized (or decentralizing). Nobody's changing their minds in response to new information. It's basically the same discussions rehashed again and again.
One thing that's been really striking to me in this latest iteration of this interminable discourse is that so many people in the Fediverse present the fact that 99.99% of Bluesky users are still using infrastructrure run by Bluesky PBC as if it's a gotcha that people advocating for Bluesky and the ATmosphere aren't aware of.
No, actually, ATmosphere developers I talk to are very very aware of these limitations. They just prefer to invest their time and energy in working to improve the situation rather than arguing about the semantics of "decentralization."
That sure seems like a good approach to me.
So can we please stop arguing about this already?"
Mississippi, Bluesky, Blacksky, the ATmosphere, Mastodon, and the Fediverse
New on The Nexus of Privacy!
As well as a summary of the situation (both in the ATmosphere and the Fediverse) and links to a bunch of interesting discussions, there's also a discussion of just why age verification laws are so bad.
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More scientists choose Bluesky over Twitter
It's not just you. Survey says: "Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky"
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/more-scientists-choose-bluesky-over-twitter/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica there's no such a thing as #AcademicMastodon. Unfortunately. It seems to me even that there's a trend that academics leave the #Fediverse, in favor of #Bluesky very likely. At least there is an increasing number of inactive profiles.
What are subjects related to the #Fediverse, #Bluesky, and the entire open social web that are at the top of your mind now, in late summer 2025?
How could we get them best covered at FediForum in October?
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I'm a bit confused about some of the discourse around Bluesky having to comply with Mississippi laws.
Does it really matter to what degree they're "truly" decentralized?
Forums and fediverse servers have shut down/geo-blocked people in UK in response to UK's Online Safety Act.
https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_memoriam/
I figured it's mostly fediverse servers being too small that helps them avoid having to comply. Anyone talking about how this affects mastodon.social?
#AgeVerification#Mississippi#MississippiAgeVerification #bluesky #fediverse
@rysiek#BlueSky isn't decentralized, in the same sense mastodon.social isn't decentralized. It's just one service on the #ATprotocol, just like mastodon.social is just one service on the #ActivityPub protocol.