Thanks for sharing your research

We should definitely be copying and pasting authwalled news articles. Do what’s right, not what’s legal.

I don’t know why anyone would think any of this stuff is private. It can be pseudonyms, but that’s up to you.

But on a federated system, everyone can see all messages. That’s expected.

No. They’re direct. They’re not private.

Why would you expect anything that you post on social media to be private? I don’t get it.

They’re called DMs not PMs

Wasn’t twitter really good about banning actual Nazis and not banning journalists until Musk came along? After Musk came, Nazis were unbanned and we saw a huge wave of journalists getting banned.

Because that’s the nature of FOSS. The good news is, if they trained on you data that’s licensed CC BY-SA (as all SO content is), then you can request their source code, and they legally must provide it.

This is a good thing.

Why does that matter? The content is licensed CC BY-SA. The point here is to prevent AI answers.

What did nextcloud fork?

Doesn’t apply to GET

Because democracy

Oic its a redirect now

Your bandwidth bill lol

Well, the users collectively should dictate the priorities.

Just fucking cache.

If a GET request is breaking your server, you’re doing something horribly wrong.

Well, fortunately EU member States like Germany still run mastodon servers.

Maybe the EU can just rent space from them?

What are you talking about? Mastodon is actively updated and you can run your own instance to communicate with these German agencies

The German government has been doing it for their various agencies for years

They saw Facebook a national security threat and Twitter getting bought by a censoring fascist was the final straw for a lot of German ministries to switch to accounts on the German government run Mastodon instance.