FediLore + Fedidrama

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Chronicle the life and tale of the fediverse (+ matrix)

Largely a sublemmy about capturing drama, from fediverse spanning drama to just lemmy drama.

Includes lore like how a instance got it's name, how an instance got defederated, how an admin got doxxed, fedihistory etc

(New) This sub's intentions is to an archive/newspaper, as in preferably don't get into fights with each other or the ppl featured in the drama

Tags: fediverse news, lemmy news, lemmyverse

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Mod posts paywalled article and gets angry at users for posting the full non-paywalled text (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

What legal issues are you suggesting here? Where's the precedent for that? Supreme Court case after Supreme Court case have shown that websites cannot be held accountable for the comments of its users. A plain text quoting of an article would be extremely hard to tie to the administrators website. Much less anybody.

This is just an extremely panicky response that has no basis in reality.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court case after Supreme Court case have shown that websites cannot be held accountable for the comments of its users.

You're thinking of Section 230, which doesn't have a lot to do with copyright. This is more involving the DMCA.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

One endpoint it could wind up at would be some outlets starting to send DMCA takedown notices to Lemmy instances in the US. That wouldn’t be ideal, and it probably wouldn’t ~~start~~ stop once it started, however much anybody tried to put the horse back in the barn at that point.

Edit: Words are hard

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How on Earth would a dmca cover this? There's no copyrighted involved.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Every so often I get reminded that Lemmy puts me talking with people who have no idea what they’re talking about, and are just confidently making random statements that line up with what they want to be true at that moment.