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.
P2P! I have been screaming this into every forum at reddit since last piece of shit president was president. See? This is why!
What P2P solutions exist that need more attention? I know PeerTube does some neat P2P stuff to keep server load down (if they ever had the traffic…)
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!
Nostr solves the centralized hosting problem the current fediverse has. It’s still being developed, though, and is mostly used by crypto bros at the moment.
I am looking into Nostr, but the convos there are heavy on bitcoin and other crypto, not a big fan of that.
veilid is a framework designed for hosting completely anonymous P2P apps. They already have a chat app reference implementation - (think P2P signal) and there are others popping up like vdrop
You can play multiplayer games with LAN support together for free using a program like Hamachi.
Use a free VPN (https://riseup.net/en/vpn) to download the game for free. I usually go for fitgirl repacks if they’re available. Then you and your buddies can connect to the same ‘server’ using Hamachi and play together.
I recommend doing this with the new Halo collection and Baldur’s Gate 3 so you can see it’s possible, even with new and advanced games.
Brains > wallets, don’t be a corporate simp.