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Today I discovered that the social medium Nostr is mirroring my Mastodon profile via a mirroring server called mostr.pub.
I looked up a few other Mastodon profiles. They are mirrored too.
I never chose to be on Nostr, but my complete Mastodon profile and a number of posts are there.
I wonder what the legality of that is.
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Wataru Tenkawa 天河 航
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Schmaker
in reply to Randahl Fink • •It's same kind of bridging like brid.gy does .. it's not copying, it's tranfering your interactions to nostr so people can react on you as well.
Not sure if it's possible to unsubscribe though, but I consider it part of #Fediverse
Mastodon Migration
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Good question.
There were a lot of these discussions around the Bsky bridge and opt-in vs. opt-out. But, actually bot-mirroring an entire account without consent. That's a really good question.
Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe.
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Antifascist Atha Ahuluheluw
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •IDKFQ
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Randahl Fink
in reply to IDKFQ • • •Schmaker
in reply to Randahl Fink • •like this
eske a a reproach of men and despised among the people like this.
pmjv s klapkami na očích
in reply to Schmaker • • •yeah, it's the same thing as visiting your profile from a different mastodon instance lol
CC: @randahl@mastodon.social @idkfq@mastodon.social
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Schmaker a a reproach of men and despised among the people like this.
Jens Finkhäuser
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •It's why I have a license in my bio. Kinda.
In federated protocols, you cannot avoid copies. You can only give people guidelines on how to handle them.
Sebastian Lauwers
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Why do you see this as different than, say, another Mastodon server? For example, your profile is available here theatl.social/@randahl@mastodo… and here pnw.zone/@randahl@mastodon.soc… (I just picked two random servers from the mastodon website).
But it doesn’t have to be Mastodon. Anything in the Fediverse can display your information and profile.
Why do you feel there is a legal issue with this? It’s only your content. They’re not impersonating you.
theATL.social
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Randahl Fink
in reply to Sebastian Lauwers • • •Sebastian Lauwers
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Schmaker likes this.
Randahl Fink
in reply to Sebastian Lauwers • • •Sebastian Lauwers
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •I don’t know Nostr, but the screenshot you shared had an ActivityPub symbol next to your name or post.
ActivityPub is the foundation of the Fediverse. Anyone can implement the Fediverse protocol, and subscribe to you, receive updates from your account, etc. I’ve implemented ActivityPub a few times.
Are they a good Fedi citizen? I can’t say. Are they just feeding off the content produced here? Maybe.
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Pēteris Krišjānis
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Someone getting your posts if you don't lock them is one thing.
Someone's impersonation is other and not legal.
Шуро
in reply to Pēteris Krišjānis • • •@Pēteris Krišjānis it is not impersonation but bridging. They are bridge Mastodon to their network automatically. There is even some interaction possible.
Just like it happens on Fediverse itself where every server has a "copy" of remote profiles.
The only question is bridging without permission but again it is open network.
@Randahl Fink
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Peter
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •The site doesn't access your account until someone searches for it, and even then it's out of date until the search forces it to catch up.
It's not a problem if your Fediverse account is open for searching, as that's your choice. They're not breaking any rules.
Randahl Fink
in reply to Peter • • •sam
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Randahl Fink
in reply to sam • • •@iveyline
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •SamuelJohnson
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •If your YouTube channel becomes popular you'll see rip-off versions with an AI generated clone of yourself. You'd be joining Joe Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs (economists), Rick Wilson (Lincoln Project, political commentator) and many others. The tell, if it appears (doesn't always), is the words "Synthetic content". The aim is monetization at creator's expense.
Could be argued re-sharing original publicly posted content without any monetization is beneficial to you, if not to Mastodon.