@julian In hindsight, I probably should've posted asking for information rather than jumping to conclusions, I will admit.
The main reason reason I saw it and jumped to that conclusion is because, especially after all of the things that have happened lately with Threads, I'm just getting tired of seeing corporations try and take advantage of the fediverse. This isn't really the same as that, however.
@jesseplusplus @julian Additionally, about the podcast part earlier in this thread: I didn't know it existed here until it was pointed out. In fact, while I've read articles from the We Distribute website before, I never even knew they had a podcast. Not everyone is going to know that things like that exist.
There isn't much information on the internet about Frequency at all too, so when I did a web search for it initially I couldn't find any info, let alone a podcast episode about it.
@jesseplusplus @julian I do recognize now though that it's much smaller-scale than I initially thought, and not actually "corporate leeching" per se. I've updated the original post to reflect this oversight.
@jesseplusplus @julian The problem isn't with making money to sustain a project, the problem here is that the upstream code is being used with the obligation of giving it back to people using the website and then that gets entirely ignored. Regardless of how you monetize your project (or even if you don't), it's still an AGPLv3 violation, and it's still unethical.
EDIT: Turns out my initial assumptions were entirely incorrect. This is a small project and they are now aware of the issue.
Something I found about https://frequency.app: In violation of Mastodon's AGPLv3 license, Frequency does not provide any link to the source code for logged out users despite the fact that logged out pages (excluding the join/subscribe page) are still based on the Mastodon code.
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Frequency #FrequencyApp
