We've published our new terms of service for mastodon.social and mastodon.online today, effective July 1. The same template will be available as an option to other servers in the upcoming #Mastodon 4.4 update. There are no changes to our policies or operations, just clarifications, e.g. if you upload content to be displayed to other users, you give us permission to display it to other users, but you keep all rights to it. We also explicitly prohibit scraping, even though it was never allowed.
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Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 02:09:22 JST
Eugen Rochko
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Dallas Groot (iamgroot11@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 02:11:45 JST
Dallas Groot
@Gargron I literally just read it before seeing your post on here
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Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 02:29:25 JST
Eugen Rochko
@Linux There is currently a bug with displaying the link in the footer before the effective date of the terms. It will be fixed as soon as possible.
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Linux Is Best (linux@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 02:29:44 JST
Linux Is Best
@Gargron@mastodon.social Privacy Policy
Last updated Oct 06, 2022
I think there should be a footer URL to your TOS. Because on your footer you only list your Privacy Policy. -
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Timo (timoka@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 02:38:43 JST
Timo
@Gargron I got two mails from mastodon.social, 13:37 (😎) and 15:09. Why? Both are mixed German and English.
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Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 02:42:53 JST
Eugen Rochko
@timoka There was an issue with sending the e-mail more than once by accident today due to a software glitch. We're working on preventing that from occurring again.
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schrotthaufen (schrotthaufen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 04:03:58 JST
schrotthaufen
@Gargron @blogdiva What’s with the irrevocable usage rights part then?
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Ike Seblon (ike_seblon@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 06:48:58 JST
Ike Seblon
@Gargron Hi! Thanks for all the work! Regarding the pre-arbitration section of our new TOA, in the passage "The Notice to the Instance shall be sent to N/A with a paper copy to N/A" who is "N/A?"
Also, can anyone briefly explain the reasoning of "perpetuity" in the data-retention clauses?
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Dan 🌻 (danvolchek@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 07:06:38 JST
Dan 🌻
@Gargron 🥺 can the new terms of service include more characters for the toot box, pretty please 👉 🥺 👈
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kikebenlloch (kikebenlloch@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Oct-2025 21:12:34 JST
kikebenlloch
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