"Impossible"? They just need to ask for permission from each source. It's not like they don't already know who the sources are, since the AIs are issuing HTTP(S) requests to fetch them.
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No its the greatest weakness of the Fediverse.
By grouping them you could be on multiple
And sure, we can group them, link them, publish them in podcasts, whatever; but you specifically said merging them which involves only letting one of them exist. I've seen a couple good analyses on the issues with trying to artificially merge communities or limit creation of them, such as the points from this.
The fact that we don't merge them is one of the great benefits of the Fediverse, actually.
I like how you think!
Please, that's rookie terms.
Set it to 98, you won't have to worry about it again for like, a century.
Yeah like we could have a shared legal entity, say a corporation,
You mispelt coöperative.
What's your beef with the tagginator bot? It's certainly better than the reddit repost bots, right?
He is the nerdiest nerd ever. That's why he's long seen what is going on and has been trying to save us.
I took the liberty of reading the article but I'm gonna say the title is quite... tendentious. Makes it sound like it's yet another one of those FUD / nutjob clickbait that have been coming at the privacy community for a few days with sensationalist titles such as "The CIA will stop funding Signal" (never has been) or "FBI wants to sell Wikipedia" (never has been).
What is going on?
EDIT: Cosmic Cleric has provided the definition of "tendentious", which I have linked.
The key here is that it taints you, not the thing. Just because the source code of eg.: Acrobat is known because the source is leaked, that does not make the source code of an alternative instantly illegal.
Finally, even OpenSubtitles gets enshittified.
yes:
Don't publish it there. It's that simple.