@freemo Good afternoon Mr. Freemo!
Would you mind adding a generic privacy policy and Terms of Service to qoto.org service ?
Thanks in advance ! :ablobcatheart:

@ravenclaw if its just some generic statement rather than something hand crafted then what is the intended goal?

In a sense we already have a hand crafted one at about/more but I suspect you mean one that is more legal sounding?

I have no real objection but im trying to evaluate the intended goal here.

@freemo
Thanks for the quick response sir.
Yes. "Legal", just for sake of it. :ablobcatwink:

@ravenclaw Is it something you'd personally like or benefit from, or just a general suggestion becauseyou feel it would offer QOTO some sense of legal protection?

I agree with you and will look into doing it. Just really curious why it would be something you desire. I find most people never care nor notice it when there is one. My concern is legal jargon might scare users away and give a negative impression, but i think it does serve a purpose.

@freemo
> is it something you'd personally like or benefit from.

Well yes, but actually yes.
After doing a quick look on the qoto user graph on @users . I see a steady raise of registered user.
And seeing this instance were meant to be a place for "stem" oriented people (at least that's my thought on of the "about page" of this instance).
Having legal protection might seems nice.

> Just really curious why it would be something you desire. I find most people never care nor notice it when there is one. My concern is legal jargon might scare users away and give a negative impression, but i think it does serve a purpose.

I mean. Most of us who ditch tw**ter for mastodon were concern about our privacy and them cencoring people.
And seeing qoto.org federates with all instance warms my heart. (No cencoring :ablobcatheart: )
Maybe it's time to put a privacy policy since the "about this instance" seems clear about it's terms of service.

@ravenclaw @freemo
In the legal sense where ever his servers are located that country’s laws apply, I think

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@mur2501

Agreed that is important too.. Part of the problem though is that we are a load balanced system with servers in multiple regions to provide the best connection and latency speeds. So we dont actually have servers in any one location. In all liklihood you are connecting to the server that is phsyically closest to you (though that may not actually be in your country).

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@freemo @ravenclaw
Also the country you are yourself in is the first legal jurisdiction for you.
Anyway legality is a complex matter.

@mur2501

By “you” I presume you mean whoever the user happens to be, and not me?

@ravenclaw

@freemo @ravenclaw
Yeah, “you” is general there, refers to everyone

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