Mastodon MigrationApr 27, 2023

When you post on Twitter(1) or Bluesky(2) you grant them a broad perpetual license to use, modify, and sublicense your content. You effectively make them co-owners of your content. They can mine it and monetize it. They can even sell it. When you post on Mastodon(3) most instances take no license at all. That's right, they tell you what they are doing with your content—storing posts and delivering them—but no license.

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#twittermigration #TermsOfService #PrivacyPolicy #ContentLicense

Show thread100rabh™Apr 28, 2023
@mastodonmigration Is there a copyright associated with the content posted on Mastodon. Or is that public. Sorry I have no understanding of these.
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@the100rabh Yes. You have a copyrite to things that you publish on social media. You own the content. The issue under discussion here is that when you publish on corporate social media, by their Terms of Service, you also grant them broad license to your content, so for all intensive purposes they own it too.

#twittermigration #ContentLicense

Apr 28, 2023 at 5:21amWeb