Post #4304843

2026-07-31 21:49 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@staff/117016446554714236 fwiw, since I was very critical of the first ToS - this updated ToS looks much better. I wish there was an accessible historical diff. Though it seems pretty close in substance to the draft ToS shown back in October (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/36368) One almost insignificant quibble: I think "Content" might be too broadly defined as it relates to the worldwide licence for some features e.g. private profile notes

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@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social 2026-07-31 21:55

I still think the IP assignment situation on the fediverse is in an absurd state. If you are a registered user on a big instance you are required to agree to provide a worldwide licence to your content. But someone with followers on that server, can send content to that instance and have that content be distributed without any such transfer of IP (that's just how activity pub works). Really feels like a vestigial artifact inspired by the legal realities of centralized social media.

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