Wow!

Ben Pate 🤘🏻

To answer this better, if you have the copyright holder's permission to post their work, then that should be enough.

Certainly, it's ok for a band's agent to post their stuff on their behalf.

I'll update the TOS to better reflect this.

Dan

@benpate Yeah this got me thinking, I wonder if there's a "library browse" mode for ActivityPub. I haven't looked at the spec for a while. Most things seem inherently temporally oriented. A library orientation of the data could work well for a photo album site. Archive.org could plug in this way even. Lots of options open up.

But yeah new music alerts is what I mean. I guess you didn't backfill all of the existing albums, I don't see them. But I'll follow a couple artists and see what comes!

Ben Pate 🤘🏻

@ill_logic

I'm gonna blame Mastodon (mostly) for not backfilling things. It's certainly possible to browse someone's existing library (or outbox) to see what they've posted in the past.

At scale, it's just a really hard task, so I think they made the decision to only import data from when they start following you.