mccJun 17, 2025

Exasperated and disturbed the new IP license in the Mastodon TOS has no termination clause.

https://mastodon.social/terms-of-service/2025-07-01

Facebook and YouTube have terms saying you can intentionally remove your IP grant by deleting the content. Twitter lets you remove your IP grant by deleting your *accounts*, which is punitive, but possible to exercise (I did). It's very good Mastodon's grant is limited-use—but so was Tumblr, and it eventually abused its. I want Mastodon to be as pro-user as *Facebook and Google*.

Show threadmccJun 17, 2025

I think IP termination clauses are really important! I spent two full years throwing a fit about this on Cohost and I still refuse to use TikTok because of *this single issue*. Trying to figure out what to do about Mastodon suddenly joining the irrevocable license club (a club that currently includes: TikTok and not much else).

I have been using this site since 2016 and I'd rather not move (never mind Mastodon doesn't *actually* have an account migration feature).

Show threadMemorionJun 17, 2025
@mcc any chance this is because mastodon can't actually guarantee deletion due to federation? which is probably also a gdpr issue 😬
Show threadmcc
@Memorion I am not asking them to guarantee deletion. I am asking for the license agreement on content between me and Mastodon gGmbH to terminate when I or Mastodon gGmbH deletes the content.
Jun 17, 2025 at 2:46pmWeb
Show threadMemorionJun 17, 2025
@mcc yeah my idea was that they might not be able to federate stuff they could lose the rights to or something like that
Show threadmccJun 17, 2025
@Memorion But Mastodon should, and does, stop federating content after I delete it. They push out a deletion notice, which it seems ideally should be binding on federated instances.