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I think it's smart from a legal perspective, because the team members seem to partially be coming from companies acquired by Twitter. So I guess, if you say "i

by rvnx 3y ago

I think it's smart from a legal perspective, because the team members seem to partially be coming from companies acquired by Twitter. So I guess, if you say "it's a Mastodon-clone", you cannot be accused of taking proprietary ideas from Twitter (this is just a guess, they know better). But technically very interesting and refreshing to see. I really like their approach. It feels they are innovative.

progval 3y ago
From a legal perspective, it's against Mastodon's trademark policy: "Only use the Mastodon marks to accurately identify those goods or services that are built using the Mastodon software." https://joinmastodon.org/trademark https://joinmastodon.org/trademark