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What's the downside of it being replicated and distributed? It's got a digital signature, which can verify that it comes from you and is unaltered.
by lukev 9mo ago
What's the downside of it being replicated and distributed?
It's got a digital signature, which can verify that it comes from you and is unaltered.
- skybrian 9mo agoThey could sell their advertising instead of yours :-) I don't see a digital signature helping? Digital signatures can be stripped.
- lukev 9mo agoI mean, that is the status quo of everything published anywhere on the internet today, using any protocol, and is why copyright exists. I'm not sure how ATProto changes that equation, aside from providing additional mechanisms for authorized republication?
- skybrian 9mo agoNot a whole lot but there is at least robots.txt and scraper blocking like Cloudflare does. At least there are norms and copyright law. What are the norms for serving content from someone else's PDS? I think not asking permission is the default?