Post #2098778
2026-02-19 12:50 UTC
@mellifluousbox there's no need for a working group. Commit to never doing it. Enshrine it in the "vision and strategy" of the project that freedom of expression, privacy and personal control over data should be the goals of Mastodon. Parents have a job to protect their kids online, not an Open Source project.
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@fbinin@mastodon.fbin.in 2026-02-19 12:55
@ret @mellifluousbox Exactly. If you form a committee, it will never be balanced, and the trouble is, this nonsense will crop inside, like every other senseless stuff that gets in. Just SAY NO and DO NOT PUSH it. That is as simple as that, like KISS.
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@gbargoud@masto.nyc 2026-02-19 13:31
@ret @mellifluousbox And fuck the instance admins who are at risk of being arrested because the government of the country they're in put a dumbass age verification law on the books and no one put together the resources for how they can protect themselves from it so they had to figure it out for themselves and hope they're right.