What i don’t get about mastodon is that if the owner wants to pull the plug he can take away the app any time. What kind of tomfoolery is this. He can also legally sue instances he doesn’t like. how can you say mastodon is decentralized.
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PlutoParty@programming.dev 9 months agoPoint it out and share it with everyone. That’s what FOSS is all about. I bet you won’t.
theanon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
PlutoParty@programming.dev 9 months ago
I’m not going to entertain your buffoonery.
Little1Lost@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
but it is under the: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 Permissions of this strongest copyleft license are conditioned on making available complete source code of licensed works and modifications, which include larger works using a licensed work, under the same license. Copyright and license notices must be preserved. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. When a modified version is used to provide a service over a network, the complete source code of the modified version must be made available.
So he cant revoke anyone of using the software he contributes
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It seems like you’re deliberately misrepresenting, but I’ll explain anyway because I know that some people might be confused.
The Mastodon app is a client on your phone which accesses servers in the network.
The network consists of multiple servers that are interconnected to each other. Content from one server is automatically cross-hosted to other servers when it is discovered on those other servers. That’s how Federation works. I know it’s probably an oversimplification of how activitypub works, but it’s generally good enough for most people, and the important part is really that content is present and visible on other servers.
When you sign up to a server your account is stored on that server, the posts that you make are stored on that server, as well as automatically cross hosted to other servers which have people following you.
If the owner of a server pulls the plug for whatever reason the content on that server will no longer be directly accessible, if your account is there you will lose your account. The copies on other servers will remain as they have been copied. The rest of the network will continue operating without that server and the accounts that were hosted on it.
About asking whether or not an instance owner can sue instances they don’t like, that sounds like absolute nonsense and I’m not even going to bother trying to understand whatever point you’re trying to make with this.
seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Of course they won’t. They’re shilling their own product which is a competitor to Mastodon.