Carighan Maconar

Yeah? Why was that ever in question in this context?

Of course, but whether you’re decentralized or not has nothing to do with whether you as someone running a service has to decide for themselves whether to block Mississippi users or risk legal consequences?

Each instance still has an owner. Just like the Bluesky CEO, they need to decide whether the (legal) risks are worth it to them and whether they can cover the (legal) costs if needed.

For any individual instance owner, this changes nothing.

How come plenty federated stuff is also blocking people then? Apparently that alone does not help?

As evident by Lemmy instances not doing the same thing. /s

There’s a difference between being decentralized and doing something illegal, you know?

Entirely understandable. Like you say, it’s not your fight. This is more so if one creates something and isn’t even from the US, if the wankers in a specific US state elect shitty government, that’s not on you in a wholly different country to go up against.

Very limited use case of course (long-tube bowden style feed mechanisms aren’t that common any more) but damn is it cool for that case!