Note that Florida is now joining several other states in attempting to require AGE VERIFICATION for social media sites. It may or may not survive a court challenge, bans in two other states have been tossed.
For any activist-centered mastodon instance, allowing a 3ed party, commercial age verification service to interact with users would generate records available to the police and the FBI and represent an extreme risk.
If attempts at prosecuting server administrators for not doing this become a threat, the same system Pornhub uses is totally legal: block all clearnet instance from every offending state, then make sure word gets out access using a VPN or Tor is still welcome. Pornhub has poured the porn age verification states a huge cup of "shut the fuck up" with absolute impunity.
I myself do not carry ID on the street and have no "verified" accounts anywhere on any site, and that's not going to change. I would rather migrate to a noncomplying instance than submit to age verification to remain on a complying instance.
I am probably already blocking the age verification servers from my computers, but if not I most certainly plan to find and block every one of them.
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