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It still looks pretty standard for a social media platform, it covers their bases for legalities. I can see how someone could read that and be concerned, but I’ll bet https://mastodon.social/@dansup would reply if someone asked a question for clarification on mastodon, he’s generally really good about that.
Ohh no not off to a good start. Pixelfed are pretty good iirc u can add a licence to ur content same as peertube. Lemmy devs rejected the ideas cos they are communists are dont like the idea of ownership.
but federated and open source
I believe one of their terms tho is something sketch about your content and data.
Wanna source that? Cause I’ve been following loops a bit and haven’t seen anything close to that. If anything it’s the opposite.
They said they believe.
Only knowledge has sources; but beliefs sound cool.
I don’t know why I used a semicolon there, but it’s staying.
Hey, believe in yourself, that semicolon belongs there if you believe it belongs there.
Believe in yourself!
Science: No.
Someone provided the source in another post: https://loops.video/legal/terms-of-service#2
What exactly is a red flag there? It seems pretty boilerplate from a quick skim.
I believe the section of concern was
It still looks pretty standard for a social media platform, it covers their bases for legalities. I can see how someone could read that and be concerned, but I’ll bet https://mastodon.social/@dansup would reply if someone asked a question for clarification on mastodon, he’s generally really good about that.
Edit Update: Seems like someone had similar concerns and dansup replied here: https://mstdn.social/@EdanOsborne/113413398742299770
Terms of service/privacy policies would be on a per-instance basis.
U would assume so but u never know.
What nonsense is that?
“All your content and data are belong to us”?
which term you believe is that? https://loops.video/legal/terms-of-service
Ohh no not off to a good start. Pixelfed are pretty good iirc u can add a licence to ur content same as peertube. Lemmy devs rejected the ideas cos they are communists are dont like the idea of ownership.