Comment on Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers
GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoThat’s similar to the “you’re being inconsistent” thing that the article says not to say, kind of.
Consent isn’t really built into ActivityPub and it’s inherently the opposite of how I understand it to work (copying your content all over the place regardless of your desires).
But their argument is kind of reasonable.
Who cares?
We can change ActivityPub, but we couldn’t change Twitter. People were tolerating worse just for the sake of having a community before they moved to the fediverse. They had no say before and they’re asking for better from it now that they can have their voices heard at all.
ericjmorey@discuss.online 4 weeks ago
ActivityPub is a means of sharing information in a way that the information can easily be collected and reshared. By using it, you should expect that people will collect and reshare information you send via the ActivityPub protocol.
GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The article addresses this directly in the section on things to not say, though:
ericjmorey@discuss.online 4 weeks ago
That addressing is insufficient because it begs the question of consent being withheld. But the consent is implicitly given by the sending of information via the protocol, otherwise a service like Mastodon can’t exist. The question of asking for consent after it is given is the part that I’m conflicted about.
GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Read the article, I didn’t write it.