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[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

It's normal. In today's social media it just takes more time to ask the author whether you can use what they've created, especially relative to clicking that repost button.

In the 00s you'd just ask and most likely get permission and also the author would be flattered. If you wouldn't ask, though, that'd be very impolite and the author would be pissed.

Just like IRL among normal people.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I don't think you're quite following here.

EG have you ever heard about Power Ventures? That was a social media aggregator. You gave the website your credential for Facebook and others. It would fetch contact lists, messages, and so on, and present them in a single place. That gave you a kind of interoperability, or even a kind of federation. Obviously, Facebook didn't like that. This kind of thing just weakens their hold on users.

You'd think users here should like this sort of thing. But it's full here with people who passionately hate it, just as much as Facebook did. Facebook completely destroyed the company in court. The Fediverse is full of people who think that that's exactly right.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

Aha, okay, I agree it's not.

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