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
Twitter and Bluesky (and almost all corporate social media providers) say they need a broad license to do what they do. But the truth is that they don’t need a license to publish your content—or they could take a much more limited publishing only license—but they don’t because the way they make money is processing your content, profiling you, and selling information about you to ad tech companies. For this they need to co-own your content.
I have seen a report from the EU Commission on new rules for what they label the Metaverse, backed by their GDPR. It's a combination of VR and Social Media.
Good luck finding current info via US-based search engines. The whole feel of this web-page is different with easy checks on such things as tracking permission. There is a link to the PDF of the conclusions.
Mastodon Migration
Brian
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