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Cake day: June 15th, 2020

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  • Lots of great conversation here, I also work somewhere where this is required. If I didn’t need my phone for access to chat, I just wouldn’t use it for work. Alternatively, my phone has a work profile so I use that for any work related or non-FOSS apps. My IT guy even approved of my methods and said do the minimum and never more with tech.



  • I understand on a current technical side why this is not possible, but the post still has some merit in that misuse of original posts can lead to legal action.

    Right now, all content posted online is generally accepted as unlicensed, free to use however one pleases, works. This was fine at the beginning, but as the internet grew, control of one’s data increasingly got more difficult to control - once social media became the dominate form of communicating, it was all over.

    Early blogs still have copyrights posted on them that, legally, can be enforced and respected. So if each user was able to indicated in meta data their choices, with most defaulting probably to a free license, then there is some level of control returned to the user, regardless of protocol and how things get replicated on servers.

    Licenses include reproduction, and the way activitypub works can make that quite murky (its being republished on servers) but that is not all it covers.

    OP, I think this is a very interesting topic to discuss, thanks for bringing it up!