> I don't think I've been affected yet, but I'm a content creator and I don't want anyone to use my work for commercial and derivative works, etc. just because they might have found it thru your instance.
@ellakane That makes sense.
However, there's a different issue here, that's been talked about for years, yet Mastodon chose not to address (if they have, I have not seen it) by just hoping it doesn't really matter: when a notice goes through the Fediverse, it is being re-distributed, possibly even commercially, so if a notice is not clearly licensed, it may even be illegal to federate it.
But I'm guy an instance admin, that footer is the default of GNU social, the software that started the Fediverse and has been the mainline of it for many years.
I think the only reason I got to be in the centre of all this is because search engines like !loadaverage for some reason. And because that's not the first time this caused problems, GNU social nightly now asks "robots" not to index remote profiles.