Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mastodon-says-it-doesnt-have-the-means-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws/
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Honestly, this seems like one of the big challenges with decentralized platforms like Mastodon. Since the network is made up of thousands of independently run servers and the main project doesn’t track users globally, implementing a universal age-verification system is technically difficult