You can consent to a federation interface without consenting to having a bot crawl all your endpoints.

Just because something is available on the internet it doesn’t mean all uses are legitimate - this is effectively the same problem as AI training with stolen content.

It’s not about the impact it’s about consent.

Do you think Flohmarkt is worse than Volkswagen?

That’s not an issue for brands. German and Chinese brands are just doing fine everywhere with the possible exception of the two countries in the world where people are not exposed to other languages.

And why should we name things for the exclusive convenience of monolingual English speakers to the detriment of everyone else?

Got it, let’s name it in mandarin then

At least most speakers of European languages will pronounce it close enough to German - though most will not do make the r in markt as hard as Germans do.

Why would English be objectively better than German?

There’s also no guarantee that the rel=me points to a fediverse instance, mastodon already has logic to deal with thus without reinventing the wheel with what’s effectively a proprietary solution.

A neat way would be to re-use one the 200 already existing standards like rel="author" or even rel="me" (which mastodon already supports anyway). This solution just is just NIH-driven development.

He means they are trying not to be the Nazi bar, and added an homeopathic amount of moderation to the platform.

There’s no reason why 114MB of static content over 5 minutes should be an issue for a public facing website. Hell, I probably could serve that and the images with a Raspberry Pi over my home Internet and still have bandwidth to spare.

I think they are throwing stones at the wrong glass house/software stack.

How the fuck is no one in jail over this?

It depends on the kind of discussion. Incentivizing other people to break the law is illegal in most places

And when it goes to the court you move under the nearest bridge.

That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to contain the blast radius.

Why does it need to be a fediverse alternative, instead of icalendar/rfc-5545? Using activitypub for this sounds like a privacy nightmare.

What’s the difference between this and https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-07d7-a-custom-url-scheme-and-web-based-protocol-handlers-for-linking-to-activitypub-resources/3588?

I think he means he’s running the name server for his zone (i.e. the authority for subdomains of his domains), which of course doesn’t help if the top level domain gets suspended and the NS record gets deleted.

Yes. Basically any email client would translate better to a Usenet client.

Reddit and Lemmy have a fundamentally different way to structure content and interactions compared to Usenet.