This could be an incredible development (or at least the start of something incredible :-). Right now discourse instances are maybe the highest quality online meeting and discussion places on the internet but they are all separate islands. Some sort of federation among them and maybe with other type of servers (when it makes sense) would open a new window. Watching this with some excitement!
What we need to do is have a copyleft licence for all federated content so anyone who uses it for any purpose (data minibg ai etc) must make it opensource and federated then they can come do whatever they like good luck profiting if u cant own the servuce or the content.
Can i put this in my profile and say that all my comments posts etc are covered by it? And if someone where to use my data for ai training etc would i have grounds to enforce the terms of the licence? I would also like to be able to force anyone who uses my data for an ai etc to make it opensource, is this possible? If i where to self host an instance could i make this the terms of the instance and anyone interacting with it? Assuming this is possible would comments on a post i make or a reply to i comment i make be counted as a derivative work?
This is what I have done. Pixelfed has the option to assign a license to individual post, so it should not be that hard to implement the same for the rest of the fediverse.
I mainly choose the noncommercial license to stop big actors like Meta from displaying my content alongside their ads. They probably will not respect it, but if this becomes the standard on the social web, we might have some collective leverage down the road, i.e. for a class action lawsuit.
Every service that joins the fediverse the more terrifying the fediverse becomes to the big tech companies.
And none of that matters if we let the big tech companies into the Fediverse.
What we need to do is have a copyleft licence for all federated content so anyone who uses it for any purpose (data minibg ai etc) must make it opensource and federated then they can come do whatever they like good luck profiting if u cant own the servuce or the content.
Say hello to Creative Commons. You can license stuff with an express interdiction for commercial use
Can i put this in my profile and say that all my comments posts etc are covered by it? And if someone where to use my data for ai training etc would i have grounds to enforce the terms of the licence? I would also like to be able to force anyone who uses my data for an ai etc to make it opensource, is this possible? If i where to self host an instance could i make this the terms of the instance and anyone interacting with it? Assuming this is possible would comments on a post i make or a reply to i comment i make be counted as a derivative work?
Good questions. I’m not a lawyer, so, I can’t answer them, but you could just start adding “CC BY-NC 4.0” at the end of all your comments.
CC BY-NC 4.0
This is what I have done. Pixelfed has the option to assign a license to individual post, so it should not be that hard to implement the same for the rest of the fediverse.
I mainly choose the noncommercial license to stop big actors like Meta from displaying my content alongside their ads. They probably will not respect it, but if this becomes the standard on the social web, we might have some collective leverage down the road, i.e. for a class action lawsuit.
I would really love to see this as an option on the rest of the fediverse where do we pertition for this?