doboprobodyne<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@markwyner" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>markwyner</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@deirdrebeth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>deirdrebeth</span></a></span> </p><p>It's very interesting, as a lay person considering hosting an activity-pub based server and allowing open sign-ups, it felt to me like they were trying to hedge against the fact that once something's published online, especially via a federated publishing network, the publisher doesn't have a legally meaningful (to my mind, but I am not a judge) mechanism to reliably unpublished it from the internet. As I read it, they seemed to be asking the user to agree that all parties understood and accepted this.</p><p>I could be wrong, of course, and I'm sure the author of your link would say I am (under their subheading "What about federation?" where they seem to think what I describe is handled implicitly, and that's fine for all parties), but nevertheless it's food for thought for me, in how I might compose/adjust a ToS agreement. Thank you for sharing it.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/activitypub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activitypub</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/piefed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>piefed</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/webhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webhosting</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/hosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hosting</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/contract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contract</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/contractLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractLaw</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a></p>