tartar

fuck this, man. i hope someone sues their ass and wins; though i’m not sure how or even if it’s possible. the GPL does have this:

You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License. For example, you may not impose a license fee, royalty, or other charge for exercise of rights granted under this License.

but i don’t know if legally speaking, that really extends to them selectively choosing to terminate relationships with customers who exercise their GPL rights. what’s certain is that it’s an incredible asshole move and violates the spirit of the GPL and FOSS in general.

i have to admit i don’t always agree with the stallman position on things, but shit like this really makes me see the value of copyleft licenses and the arguments of the hardcore free software camp. software freedom is so easily lost :(

stallman was right.

Nice work guys! Appreciate the effort you put in running the instance, and the community-oriented way you do it.

You’re doing great work man. Lemmymap and fedi-block in particular seem very neat. It’s crazy how many neat open source tools and projects have sprung up around the threadiverse

I very much appreciate this philosophy. It looks like this is the right instance for me :)

huh, I didn’t know lemmy also federated with mastodon. i guess posts from there show up like a regular post from a lemmy instance would? As opposed to kbin which I think has a separate tab in the ui for microblogging

anywho, i’m curious to know what the majority of defeds were for? like was it extremist stuff, heavily unmoderated instance, or something else

edit: appears from perusing the link above its mostly looks like reasonable defeds, though some of them are so small that it’s questionable if they would ever interact with the instance