The Searchtodon episode illustrates how the fediverse empowers people to not just be social media users, but active participants in shaping their platform. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/participation-fediverse
Participation in the Fediverse

Parts of the fediverse have been in something of an uproar recently over an experimental search service that was under development called (appropriately enough) Searchtodon. The project aimed to enable people to search their own home timeline and worked by being authorized by a user to access that...

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@eff The Searchtodon episode and documentation taught me a clear lesson. If is fine to reuse content with permission, but I have to have explicit approval from the original author.

New software has been released. In a day the data should have been updated.