After almost a decade of Mastodon, and several years post-Musk buying Twitter, it's so odd that reporters still confuse Mastodon.social with Mastodon as a whole:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/mastodon-updates-its-terms-to-prohibit-ai-model-training/
(yes, they clarify things later in the article. But the framing is M.S = Mastodon as a whole)
Robert W. Gehl
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2025-06-17 16:46:07 UTC
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