Post #3154326
2026-05-22 19:19 UTC
@greg@flipboard.social @mike@flipboard.social ok - so speaking for everyone on mastodon.art (I'm the owner), and everyone on similarly aligned instances to ours (I know this from experience of seeing this kinda thing repeatedly in my years of being on fedi), anything that takes someone's posts, even if they're public posts, and posts them outside of the platform they were originally posted on, needs to be done opt-in with consent given at the start.
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@welshpixie@mastodon.art 2026-05-22 19:21
@greg@flipboard.social @mike@flipboard.social If this isn't done, or is done as opt out, the service will likely end up blocked from this side of Fedi as a privacy violation. We all take the stance of 'just because someone makes a public post doesn't mean you have the right to help yourself to that post and share or distribute it in another context without first establising consent'. So I can say 100% that if this takes our members' replies and posts them off Mastodon without consent, we'll block the service.