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We've heard your feedback on the Terms of Service updates for mastodon.social and mastodon.online, and we're pausing the implementation date (previously announced to users via email as 1st July 2025) so we can take further advice and make improvements.

It may take us a moment to consult with the right people, so please bear with us while we do so. As always, we appreciate your patience and support.

in reply to Mastodon

People are scared of conceding perpetual licenses because of misuse at other companies. I don't believe your phrasing in the ToS was bad though.
in reply to Detun3d

there was also an arbitration clause in there. And it would become the default ToS for anyone installing this software and not going writing their own ToS.
in reply to viq

@viq
Everything posted can be improved, but is not bad per se.
Please cite the sentences that have you worried.
@viq
in reply to Detun3d

@tuneintodetuned mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11470688… talks about it better than I could. So do people in the linked issue.


ETA: GOOD NEWS!

mastodon.social/@Mastodon/1147…

In reading an important discussion of the IP assignment in the new Mastodon.social ToS:

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

I was GOBSMACKED to discover the new ToS has a "binding arbitration waiver," which takes away your right to sue, no matter how badly the service abuses you.

These are profoundly unethical, terrible clauses. They should never, ever appear in "adhesion contracts" (that is, contracts that you merely click through, rather than negotiating.)


in reply to bazkie 👩🏼‍💻

The point is we are the publisher of our own material, you don't need perpetual rights to it. You, mastodon dot social, are acting as a common carrier, not a publisher.

@bazkie @Mastodon