@schwim there's a divide here between people who want a big fedi vs small fedi. who want everyone here and who want lots of limitations on what they can stumble on or who can reply to them.imo that's about what we want this place to be. we cannot make it serve both interests well. trying to do this leads to posting options that confuse people and anger over bots that try to make hashtags more visible, for example.like with bridging AT/AP, these decisions are costing a lot of money/effort.

Unfortunately, most laws are either worded so vaguely that it's up to the regulator's discreation (the Online Services Act in the UK for example) or explicitly apply to sites of all sizes and maybe have some handwaving language along the lines of requiring networks to deploy age verification methods that are "commercially reasonable".It's certainly not a good situation, and anxiety is very warranted, but I don't think we're necessarily doomed. In the short term, VPNs are a thing and can buy us some time (although as we're seeing in the UK, age-limiting VPNs is the next step). What I do think is that we have to mobilize to fight these kinds of bad internet bills more effectively. Here's a thread with some initial thoughts and a request for other suggestions - https://neuromatch.social/@jdp23/116967043175194824@joergi @_elena

@df @aslakr Nice

@oblomov@sociale.network and nothing of value was lost Just kidding of course, there are many cool accounts on dot social

@PCMag Thank you for your rapid attention and correction. That earns trust in #journalism.