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ericjmorey@discuss.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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).

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.

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GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The article addresses this directly in the section on things to not say, though:

ActivityPub does indeed “makes assumptions that are fundamentally opposed to the kinds of protections that people seem to be seeking.” But in a discussion about whether or not to get consent, even the ones that are true the miss the point – just because ActivityPub leaves open possibilities for you to do something without getting consent, that’s not the only option.

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- ericjmorey@discuss.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.
  
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  - GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Read the article, I didn’t write it.
    
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    ericjmorey@discuss.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I did. I’m sharing my thoughts about it. Some of those thoughts are that it seems to make assumptions that don’t hold.
    
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