Mastodon might struggle to comply with social media age verification laws
Sarah Perez, writing for Techcrunch:
The Mastodon 4.4 release in July 2025 added the ability to specify a minimum age for sign-up and other legal features for handling terms of service, partly in response to increased regulation around these areas. The new feature allows server administrators to check users’ ages during sign-up, but the age-check data is not stored. That means individual server owners have to decide for themselves if they believe an age verification component is a necessary addition.
Mastodon is a decentralised social network that allows anyone with the inclination, and access to a reasonably robust server, to establish their own instance, or chapter.
Mastodon is the sum of its many parts, and is not structured like X or Threads, whose operations are run from a single, centralised, point. I have no idea how many Mastodon instances there are, but the number would not be insignificant.
Compliance with age verification laws will be down to individual instance administrators. It’s not something the Mastodon head office could do, because there isn’t one, as such.
This doesn’t mean members of Mastodon instances operating in jurisdictions where age verification laws apply, will be able to forgo confirming their age. Indeed, age verification will be a necessity if the instance they belong to is to continue operating.
Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch
Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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From Sergio Chapa in 2023: Given a pace of about three miles per hour, it would take roughly 32 hours to hike the entire trail nonstop. Hiking about eight hours per day means less than a week of hiking and camping.
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200,000 Steps on the Lone Star Hiking Trail
This 96-mile Lone Star Hiking Trail, leading from Richards to Cleveland, offers respite from the pandemic and urban sprawl.Sergio Chapa (The Texas Observer)
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Giancarlo Pugliese (Vic Mancini) schreibt in seinem Blog über sein Leben mit Lungenkrebs–ein schonungsloser Bericht über den Umgang mit der Krankheit.Vic Mancini on Death Row
Chiesa and Baglini play Rachmaninov and Pärt in Sacile - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Silvia Chiesa, cello, and Maurizio Baglini, piano, play: RACHMANINOV: Sonata for cello and piano in G minor, op. 19. PÄRT: Spiegel im Spiegel. Recorded 13 December 2024....www.worldconcerthall.com
Time is running out for wild salmon in the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest.
Their populations, as well as those of some other native fish, have been declining for decades.
Now, Donald Trump is attacking the progress that had been made to restore those once-abundant salmon runs.
In June 2025, Trump signed a memorandum signaling his administration’s unwillingness to abide by the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement signed in December 2023 after two years of negotiations.
“The Trump administration’s decision to pull out of this agreement is short-sighted and regrettable,”
Miles Johnson, legal director at Columbia Riverkeeper, told Truthout.
“But folks in the Pacific Northwest who care about salmon,
and salmon cultures
and our rivers,
-- we don’t get to stop working on this just because it becomes more challenging.”
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Tribes Condemn Trump for Backing Out of Columbia River Deal for Salmon Recovery
Tribal leaders and environmental advocates warn salmon populations will go extinct without remediation efforts.Marianne Dhenin (Truthout)
Who else loved this book when they were a kid? It was so fun to try to capture the spirit of the story in a quilt - the quilting looks like the ropes Grover used to keep pages from turning and on the left side, the binding is black and gold just like a Little Golden Book!
HELLO EVERYBODEEE!
Completed: August 2025
Design: Applique
Quilting: Triangle Tangle Pantograph
Size: 60” x 77”
#FinallyFinishedForRealThisTime #Quilt #Quilting
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What is a "Slug" on Add Community Wiki Page? [Solved]
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A slug is like an article abstract that journos use to summarize shit in production basically. In my newspaper days its what the journalists would use to sound cool when asking each other what they were doing and what about.
Edit: as for context in a Wiki I don't know its intent or if it publishes or not. Wikipedia just has me on gastropods now.
#PrinceShakur is considering fight, flight or freeze regarding #TheStateWeAreIn.
#GifsArtidote: this time there's no where to flee to, as #fascism is here too, as i am experiencing in the #UK, as well as in my home country the #Netherlands.
we should all fight. if you flee, at least continue the fight for a sustainable, equal world there, once you're settled.
to survive we need everybody to #educate #organise #resist #capitalism & authority.
Genoa-Juve, le pagelle: Vlahovic risolve problemi, 7. Stanciu, poca cattiveria (5,5)
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Genoa-Juve, le pagelle: Vlahovic risolve problemi, 7. Stanciu, poca cattiveria (5,5)
Vasquez ha il piglio da leader ma non basta contro i bianconeri. Joao Mario il peggiore tra gli uomini di Tudor: a disagio a sinistraAlex Frosio (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
MRMCD talk time: scheduled!
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Railways won’t tell us how their train tickets work - shall we force them to? MRMCD 2025
In 2024, we each seperately submitted Freedom of Information requests to our country’s railway operators, asking for specification about how their barcodes worked. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.talks.mrmcd.net
Dumfries illude, ma Davis e Atta castigano l'Inter: impresa Udinese, prima sconfitta per Chivu
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Dumfries illude, ma Davis e Atta castigano l'Inter: impresa Udinese, prima sconfitta per Chivu
Sblocca il primo centro in campionato dell'olandese ma la squadra di Runjaic ribalta tutto già nel primo tempo. E così si chiudeFrancesco Pietrella (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
La Lazio dimentica Como: 4 gol al Verona con super Castellanos
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La Lazio dimentica Como: 4 gol al Verona con super Castellanos
Doppio vantaggio già dopo 10' con Guendouzi e Zaccagni, nel finale di tempo il tris di Taty che aveva servito l'assist nelle prime due reti. Nel finale sigillo di DiaElmar Bergonzini (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
Winds with a couple of storms in the past week have moved moderate concentration ice around northern the Chukchi Sea, with the result being an increase in ice extent. The belt of ice in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas with open water to the north reflects the presence of some multi-year ice that is slow to melt. @Climatologist49 @ZLabe
#PrinceShakur is considering fight, flight or freeze regarding #TheStateWeAreIn.
#GifsArtidote: this time there's no where to flee to, as #fascism is here too, as i am experiencing in the #UK, as well as in my home country the #Netherlands.
we should all fight. if you flee, at least continue the fight for a sustainable, equal world there, once you're settled.
to survive we need everybody to #educate #organise #resist #capitalism & authority.
Das Video zeigt eine Gruppe von Affen auf einem grünen Rasen, der von einem Steinmauer umgeben ist. Die Affen sind in verschiedenen Positionen zu sehen, einige stehen aufrecht, andere sind im Gras. Im Vordergrund sind einige Schilder zu sehen, die wahrscheinlich Besucherinformationen enthalten. Der Hintergrund besteht aus grünen Bäumen und dem Steinmauer. Der Text auf dem Bild lautet: „Digga, bist high??? Saurier gibt es nicht, einen Scheiß hast du gesehen... ist klar ne... ich hab sie aufgenommen, schau doch selbst!!!!“ Der Text ist in deutscher Sprache und scheint eine humorvolle Reaktion auf eine Frage zu sein, ob die Affen Saurier seien. Der Text „[@]NO_BULLSHIT_“ ist ebenfalls sichtbar, was auf eine Instagram-Kontrolle hinweist. Das Video endet mit einem schwarzen Bild, auf dem der Instagram-Logo und der Text „[@]NO_BULLSHIT_“ zu sehen sind.
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The bookshop I volunteer at is after more volunteers.
If you like hanging out with books, chatting to people about books, and generally just pottering about with books, get involved!
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Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
Illinois’s JB Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, we’ll make sure public health systems remain strong.The New Republic
Rudy Giuliani seriously injured in New Hampshire car wreck after helping domestic violence victim: spokesman
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a freak car accident in New Hampshire on Saturday night, a rep said.Carl Campanile (New York Post)
UK age check law seems to be hurting sites that comply, helping those that don’t | TechCrunch
The U.K. recently started enforcing new age-check rules, and The Washington Post reports that it’s already having a significant effect on traffic to porn sites.Anthony Ha (TechCrunch)
Reminder that we will begin geoblocking connections from Mississippi tonight, plus new news: we must also temporarily block signups from users under 18 from Tennessee. dw-news.dreamwidth.org/44774.html
Tomorrow (Sunday August 31st) will see the start of the Global Sumud Flotilla #GSF leaving for #Gaza.
More than 6,000 people from (currently) 44 countries will gather from August to September, and form a large flotilla.
It is a slightly different approach than the one taken by the #FreedomFlotilla, but supported by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and many other organizations.
Blocking or hijacking dozens of smaller boats will be much harder for #Israel than with the earlier attempts to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Details:
globalsumudflotilla.org/
L'Italia ha battuto la Bosnia 96 a 79 agli Europei di basket: è la seconda vittoria in tre partite - Il Post
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![The comic from https://xkcd.com/77/ , but with modified text in the last panel:
[Two people are talking in a room with a computer on.]
Person 1: I feel like I'm wasting my life on the internet. Let's walk around the world.
Person 2: Sounds good.
[The two people are shown walking through trees.]
[The two people are shown walking on flat stretch, with mountains in the distance.]
[The two people are shown in a magnificent canyon. They stand, silently looking at the scene.]
Person 1: And yet all I can think is, "how do I tag this on OSM?"](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/57674044 "The comic from https://xkcd.com/77/ , but with modified text in the last panel:
[Two people are talking in a room with a computer on.]
Person 1: I feel like I'm wasting my life on the internet. Let's walk around the world.
Person 2: Sounds good.
[The two people are shown walking through trees.]
[The two people are shown walking on flat stretch, with mountains in the distance.]
[The two people are shown in a magnificent canyon. They stand, silently looking at the scene.]
Person 1: And yet all I can think is, \"how do I tag this on OSM?\"")
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Malaysia's charcoal workers who risk life and health to do the work shunned by most
Mr Mustapa Mustaman has spent more than two decades at a charcoal factory near Malaysia's quiet town of Kota Tinggi in Johor, Malaysia.Zamzahuri Abas (Channel NewsAsia)
Yemen's Houthis vow retaliation after Israeli airstrikes kill PM of Houthi-run gov't
Yemen's Houthis vow retaliation after Israeli airstrikes kill PM of Houthi-run gov't-english.news.cn
Das Bild zeigt eine überdachte Fußgängerüberquerung auf einer Straße. Die Überquerung ist mit horizontalen Streifen in verschiedenen Farben bemalt: Weiß, Rosa, Blau und Grau. Diese Farben sind typisch für eine Transgender-Steinzeitüberquerung, die die LGBTQ+-Community ehrt. Die Überquerung befindet sich auf Asphalt und ist von einer Steinmauer umgeben. Ein Abflussrohr ist im Vordergrund zu sehen, und im Hintergrund ist ein weiterer Teil der Straße mit einer ähnlichen Überquerung zu erkennen. Die Umgebung wirkt ruhig und urban.
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Here’s What Ancient Dogs Looked Like: A Forensic Reconstruction of a Dog That Lived 4,500 Years Ago
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Here's What Ancient Dogs Looked Like: A Forensic Reconstruction of a Dog That Lived 4,500 Years Ago
We’re pretty sure dogs aren’t obsessed with ancestry, despite the proliferation of canine DNA testing services.Ayun Halliday (Openculture.com)
The New Mission: Sail to #Gaza !
Our objective now is a coordinated humanitarian nonviolent direct action of several simultaneous boats & break the siege, delivering all the aid we can carry & creating a humanitarian corridor to provide all the aid the #Palestinian people need.
Aug & Sept 2025
Donate: chuffed.org/project/138809-glo…
Info: globalsumudflotilla.org/
#SailToGaza
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
#StopGenocide
#FreePalestine
Global Sumud Flotilla - Global
As the genocide in Gaza gets worse by the day and the governments and institutions fail the Palestinian people, the free people of the world are trying their best to maintain solidarity and to create a global uprising that can put a stop to this horr…Chuffed
Pueblo of Acoma & Mesa Encantada, New Mexico, c.1905-10 - Detroit Publishing Postcard
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