Altcha’s open-source and self-hosted, which is the best-case scenario for captchas. As I understand it Anubis and go-away are also self-hosted and open-source as well.

Splintenet would destroy it, assuming this censorship stuff actually causes a splinternet.

Better get used to living in NK, because the whole free world is turning into that. I just contacted my rep, but given the state I live in already age-gated porn sites and no doubt wants to lock down the general web too, it probably won’t amount to much.

You can probably use an instance outside of the US.

• Wouldn’t those instances be blocked by the national firewall that’s surely about to go up?

Goodbye Fediverse if this passes, because it’ll surely kill that network. Goodbye FOSS too as that won’t be able to comply the with web DRM that will surely be this law’s enforcement mechanism.

You know what they say, no honor among thieves.

Altcha, for starters. Also, Anubis or go-away.

Sadly that could actually happen at some point.

I like my ‘breaking a stick’ analogy better, but yeah, that too.

That CEO has no room to talk about gaming being unaffordable and the industry ignoring the signs, when it’s that very industry that made it unaffordable to begin with.

You can’t claim ignorance of a problem you and your industry directly caused, Asha. You’re as complicit in this as the industry you’re saying is ignoring warning signs.

That’s like if I broke a stick in half in front of a bunch of people, and then tried to say I didn’t break that stick, when everyone saw me break that stick. Stupid analogy, I know, but that’s basically what Asha is trying to pull here.

Google must’ve bought off those Member States.

Misskey/Sharkey seems like the best Fediverse Pinterest alternative that’s active that I’m aware of.

Otherwise Pixelfed will sorta work, but it’s meant mainly as an IG alternative.

Also, what if MS or the government starts getting hostile and taking down Linux and other FOSS repos they don’t like?

The regular ad.

I can just feel the If you or a loved one were diagnosed with mesothelioma, you may be entitled to financial compensation ads pouring in with this.

Well, Mint could just fall back to LMDE if Ubuntu starts going in the same direction as RHEL and starts account-walling their source code and blocking redistribution under the penalty of an account ban, but I don’t know about other Ubuntu clones.

They’ve actually already arrested people in the UK over social media posts before, so they’ll no doubt try that tactic again at some point down the line, also, a woman in Texas got arrested for saying her town’s water was bad on FB, so people are getting arrested over social media posts in the US now too.

The FBI seized a Mastodon instance once, there’s nothing stopping the Fediverse from being targeted.

Never gained ActivityPub support? Then how am I actively replying to ActivityPub posts and following ActivityPub accounts on Friendica?

Even Windows is KYC’d by default as consumer Windows generally requires an MS account now and setting up an MS account requires your DOB and may some day even require a face scan or your ID, and in addition there’s been active attempts to restrict Linux and BSD although the two laws of which I speak in Cali and Colorado ultimately exempted FOSS from their scope, and as for the Fediverse, the FBI raided a Mastodon server a while back so even that isn’t entirely safe, and Windows 365 is facilitating thin clients connected to rented servers, plus the ability to build a PC is actively being pushed out of reach of everyone who isn’t rich.