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Bluesky will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming after exiting Mississippi (techcrunch.com)
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[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago

Booo

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Dump the corporate social shitholes

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can just host your own decentralized instance, right?

Right?

[–] zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

I think if you do host your own PDS you can just tell it to say that you are age verified, they can only enforce this on the parts hosted by bluesky

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is a mistake, they should just refuse service in all markets that do this, that's the only way you get enough public backlash to make a change

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At some point it is a numbers game. I don't know if their product is compelling enough to cause people to rise up and demand action. We're tired.

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Can't disagree there. I don't even use it, I just prefer when people take a stand