You would also have to make skipping to any point in the video impossible then as folks could just jump ahead until they are past the embedded ad.

That is just unforgivable.

You're going to make me cry remembering my days with gpm. Hands down the best music platform that was.

Federated doesn't mean open.

I don't think it's about nitpicking it's about being honest.

Nobody wants to do that

Just because you give money to someone or something it doesn't make it a charitable organization that doesn't get taxed.

Someone mentioned above but we have that in Matrix. A great federated messaging service.

I don't see how any of this would hold up in court. I'm pretty sure you can't be liable for a new tos for what is essentially new software that you didn't use in your project. This company is clearly run by fucktards who are hoping to prey upon devs that just don't know better or can't fight back.

Why wait and not just start a community up?

I'd recommend getting off saving your passwords in the browser at all and move to something along the lines of BitWarden and install the appropriate plugins to your browser.

That flip phone is sounding really nice right about now.