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1. Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 26-Jun-2023 19:33:45 UTC Evan Prodromou

   Interesting results! I am a "strongly agree".

   All software that is going to federate should support ActivityPub. It is the standard for social network federation.

   All social software should federate.

   • Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 26-Jun-2023 19:33:44 UTC Evan Prodromou

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     There were some replies that were reluctant to have commercial services on the social web.

     I say, if those services are going to be around anyway, they should be federated, not siloed.

     soloojos (Mastodon Uruguay) repeated this.
   • Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 26-Jun-2023 19:33:44 UTC Evan Prodromou

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     There were some concerns that posts by people on their own servers would be used for advertisement, abused, indexed, datamined, etc. by commercial services connected to the social web.

     That would be bad. You should have control over that. Granting a person on a server the right to read or view your posts should not grant that server's operator a right to use your content for whatever they want.

     We should have better support in ActivityPub for saying what you do or don't permit with your stuff.

     soloojos (Mastodon Uruguay) repeated this.
   • Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 26-Jun-2023 19:34:24 UTC Evan Prodromou

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     • Christine Lemmer-Webber
     • mlinksva

     My friends and colleagues @mlinksva and @cwebber and others at Creative Commons worked on an RDF vocabulary for Creative Commons licenses.

     https://creativecommons.org/ns

     We should probably work on having better support for that vocabulary in ActivityPub servers, and figure out what finer-grained permissions there are.

     Contrary to using Twitter or Facebook, you didn't agree to an End User License Agreement for the social web. Your rights here should be pretty broad.

   • Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 26-Jun-2023 19:34:40 UTC Evan Prodromou

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     As one of the signers of the Franklin Street Statement, I strongly support people using Free and Open Source Software for their social networking.

     https://web.archive.org/web/20090218125143/http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/

     soloojos (Mastodon Uruguay) repeated this.
   • Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 26-Jun-2023 19:34:40 UTC Evan Prodromou

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     I also strongly support people who want to control who has access to their stuff, and don't want their own instances to federate with commercial services or proprietary software services. That's why we use open standards and open source software; so everyone has that level of control.