@[email protected] Correction, isn’t permitted implicitly, without a written permission. All of the current “mastodon” servers will get an explicit permission.
@Gargron @mb should we write to [email protected] for that permission?
@Gargron do not give permission to mastodon dot uno server for the following reasons: https://qua.name/diorama/software-identity-predatory-strategies-fediverse #brandjacking
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Software identity guidelines against predatory strategies in the fediverse: a lesson from Italy

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@Gargron that holds for mastodon dot it guide (which is sadly on Italian-speaking wikipedia at the mastodon software page) and their "Mastodon Italia" association

their core marketing strategy is to #astroturf the fediverse: other identities as if they were the Italian "chapter" of a given software, or they were "endorsed" by the main devs

a long tradition, I might say:
digg ita -> Italian digg + SEO translation of Spanish menéame
cinquee -> fiverr
noblogo -> noblogs
and so on

#brandjacking

@Gargron the damage they make to the fediverse is that people think they are the Italian Mastodon/other software flagship instance, which is a predatory behaviour against federation
also consider they had welcomed Byoblu (the wannabe Italian Gab) in the fediverse for half a year, silencing @isolategab and @isolatebyoblu , and they adopted a McCarthyism #FUD against the grassroots instances