@witchescauldron
A tough choice for movements when @Gargron＠mastodon.social etc (and others I've questioned) are not thinking about how Google YouTube.com links are helping supply MA$$ advert money to BigTech...

This adds towards the imbalance and eventuality that *they will encroach on us using all that money*. They might not have developed Mastodon as a link machine but have to respect this and change + use redirect / proxy link to suppress opposition.

We could filter all these things using redirected integrated link or as added option in Mastodon to offer it using auto-added links like:

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=NpBPm0b9deQ

Even if the original youtube.com link is also there ADD THE ALTERNATIVES + LINK UP WITH @invidious

and even collect all the good guys' software and UNITE!

#Mastodon #Suggestion #Defence vs #BigTech #Advertising #Capitalism #Money #Power #Meta #Bluesky #Google #YouTube #Links

Post title again:

Developers don't care so much about spreading Google or commercial links and supplying advert money from OUR clicks, sourced FROM Fediverse / Mastodon posts to THEM... (without education our users are weakest links)...

LEFT OVER / SIMILAR PARTS:

Pushing de-federation and going away from #meta isn't wrong and seems the natural binary choice when you get down to:

"for profit / monopoly monster, greedy gods"
vs.
"something else with more meaning... decentralisation, Mastodon ethics"

So to attempt to block or do something about this is natural if there is no other way technically or by design to avoid Meta BlueSky etc. Legal notices or clauses I see helping with countering this, and by not adding somehow this leaves that door open with those we know have money as priority and without using same morals/thinking. Basically they get the best from or rape open source kind of worlds for their own pockets mostly)... <==== a classic problem to solve to stop them piggy-backing + then fucking everything.

So my answer to all this is some legal disclaimers and notices on all Mastodon footers for example to say:

"No to scraping / collection / commercial use etc
AND
creativecommons.org/ licenses by each person

A simple option and checkbox to enable/disable would mean the space usually under text box (or wherever) would make it UNMISSABLE as a legal notice just say "It's conditional for corporations to get consent first" etc

Disclaimers and creative commons we all need anyway probably as creators and the commercial world we now know growing underneath us.

⭐ I guess more than "closed" or "open" web it's more about "not for commercial use" / "non-commercial / non-profit" ...