California lawmakers are fast-tracking A.B. 1709—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user, regardless of age, to verify their identity before accessing social platforms.That means that under this bill, all Californians would be required to submit...
Will it kill the Fediverse? If an alternative network is set up, all the Fedi servers need to do is connect to that alt network to continue to operate.
Yes, there will be growing pains, especially since this alt network may not scale as well at first, but I can't imagine the Fediverse going away. It'll just go deeper underground.
Its a win for them either way