I.E. a way to legally enforce that servers which federate with you are not allowed to serve ads alongside content from your server, and must be run by not-for-profit entities?
I’m curious about some sort of strategy that blocks Meta from extracting money from the content creators in the current fediverse by using legal licensing of some sort, similar to how the GPL software license requires any derivative software to be open source.
Who owns fedi content? You need to own it to licence it.
What constitutes a non-for-profit entity? What if someone creates an instance that’s part of a larger website that makes a profit on other things. Would they be sued? Servers need funding from somewhere.
Would it hurt the little servers more than meta long term? This is open source and hopefully widely used software so legal constraints could become a minefield for small organisations that federate.
I don’t know that they need to be blocked, so long as they meet the code of conduct/ethics of federated instances. If they don’t then everybody de-federates from them. It’s in their best interests to play ball, because they need us, not the other way around.
If they are allowed to join and contribute to the fediverse they will kill it. This is a known tactic used by large corporations.
We must prevent Meta, and others, from interfering with and profiting from the Fediverse as a top priority.
