Mastodon says he does not have the means “to comply with the laws verification laws

Mastodon says the decentralized social network is that it cannot be complied with Mississippi Life Check Law – The same law that saw a competitor Bluezki withdrew from the state – Because he has no ways to do this.

Social social institutions show that Mastodon does not track their users, making it difficult to apply such legislation. Also, you don’t want to use the IP addresses based, because those that will unfairly affect the people who were traveling.

The statement follows a vibrant conversation Earlier this week between Mastodon founder, CEO Eugen Rocko, Bluesky Board and Mike Masnick. In the conversation, which was published on its social networks for each of them, Rochako claimed, “No one can decide to prevent Feditysse Mississippi.” (the Fediiverse is the decentralized social network This includes Mastodon and other services, and it is run by Activitypub protocol.)

“This is why real decentralization is important,” Rochako said.

Masonic pushed back, wondering why there is no individual Mastodon server, such as Rocko One in Mastodon.social, will not also be subject to the same $ 10,000 per grams of used to not comply with the law.

in Our reports time In this exchange, Mastodon GGmbH, the non -profit organization funded by society, did not respond to the request for comment.

However, on Friday, the non -profit organization participated in a statement with Techcrunch to clarify its position, saying that although the special mastodon servers determine the age of 16 to register in its services, it “does not have the means of verifying its services.

That is, Mastodon does not support it. the Mastodon 4.4 launch In July 2025, he added the ability to determine the minimum agency and other legal advantages to deal with the conditions of service, in part in response to the organization’s increase around these areas. The new feature of server officials allows user’s ages to check during registration, but age test data is not stored.

This means that the owners of the individual server must decide themselves if they believe that the age verification component is a necessary addition.

Mastodon says that Mastodon is currently unable to provide “direct or operational assistance” to the broader group of Mastodon server operators. Instead, it encourages the owners of Mastodon and other Fed Aree servers to take advantage of the online resources, such as Iftas Library, Which provides support and safety support to the volunteer social network supervisors. Unbarvance institutions also advise the managers of the server to monitor the laws of the judicial states in which they exist and operate.

Mastodon notes that “not tracking, or is able to comment on individual servers and operations that run Mastodon.”

“One of the reasons that Mastodon was to allow various judicial authorities to have social media independent of the United States,” according to the joint statement with Techcrunch. “People are free to choose their account on the Mastodon server whose policies meet their needs.”