FediList Terms of Service

Foreword

I hate writing ToS pages.

Really, the ToS page is just here because the frontend is copypasta from the CofeSpace frontend and if there is a ToS page, there’s no real reason to remove it. But what the hell does it need ToS for?

Terms

I don’t think there’s anything to put here at present. Please don’t hammer the site or do anything malicious or whatever, I’ll stop you from doing it because I’m a fuckin’ genius hackerman. When the source code is available, please don’t use that to do anything evil, either.

Except for the static pages, the content is all from the admins of the servers. FediList disclaims all liability for anything in there. So if someone puts adult content in their bio, or their server page links to something scammy, or anything like that, that’s their fault, not mine.

Please don’t attempt to make a profit at my expense or at the expense of other people that volunteer their time and effort maintaining fedi instances or writing software for fedi. (You wanna make a profit at the expense of the people running instances that turn a profit, be my guest.)

People that make sites don’t tend to tell you this part, but it’s relevant: facts and statistics are not subject to copyright in any country. If you have the data, you can do what you want with it.

Data from the servers is self-reported. FediList doesn’t second-guess any of that or attempt to correct it. What the servers say is what you get. Some attempts are made to filter blatant cases of data-poisoning from aggregate stats in order to keep the site useful, but the data presented is the raw data: act accordingly.

Donations

FediList collects donations. These are used to pay for the system’s upkeep (e.g., server bills). This is not a profit-seeking venture, though; it is a collection of information in the public interest. You do not have to donate to use it, because it is a volunteer effort to help fedi understand fedi. FediList has never been in the black and doesn’t need to make money and isn’t expected to make money. (If you’ve gotten a 402 error, though, it’s probably because you are trying to train a proprietary AI or because you are an SEO-style asshole or otherwise trying to exploit free labor for profit. You go to your friend’s house, your friend says you can have as much beer as you want, so you take all his beer and try to sell it? Seriously? Fuck you, pay me.)