Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law — the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state — because it doesn’t have the means to do so.

The social non-profit 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.

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[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Keet, is a messaging app! It's in beta right now, but its already pretty stable and has a ton of promise!!

More info= works kinda like torrents - your client's IP & connectivity info is encrypted, then distributed across their 'hyperDHT'. Users you've connected with can ping the DHT to get your current IP info, then you establish a direct connection to whoever you're chatting! File shares are also accomplished over that DHT, so you can send files of any size, even terabytes!