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When you share a public post on Mastodon, you are by implication licensing that content for redistribution. Because other Mastodon servers have to redistribute
by Repulsion9513 3y ago
When you share a public post on Mastodon, you are by implication licensing that content for redistribution. Because other Mastodon servers have to redistribute it in order for anyone on another instance to see it. Hope that helps you understand the basic stuff here.
(Either that or every Mastodon server in existence is a massive copyright violation, which is frankly quite possible given how bad copyright law is)
- kstrauser 3y agoI’m a sucker for a particular mix of condescending plus wrong.
- rglullis 3y agoExcept they are not wrong. Maybe not in the specifics but in general this is exactly how AP-servers work. If you are on server A and follow someone on server B, then the posts from B will be on your server and there is absolutely no way that the "original owner" of the post on server B to remove the post from A.
- Repulsion9513 3y agoSo am I, that's why I replied to the people who were condescending plus wrong :)
- Angostura 3y ago> When you share a public post on Mastodon, you are by implication licensing that content for redistribution…. … on Mastodon
- icehawk 3y ago...on a server that speaks ActivityPub. Mastodon is one such piece of software.
- Angostura 3y agoYup, thank you for the correction
- Repulsion9513 3y agoThe common term for the network formed by software speaking ActivityPub is "Mastodon", despite that formally being the name of a single piece of that software. Do you also have a problem with Pleroma or Akkoma or whatever? If not then this isn't relevant.