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@realcaseyrollins I would be open to discussing a middle ground where copyrighted information enters the public domain before it becomes obsolete (5-10 years?), let alone before anyone who ever saw it in its original form is dead. It would be necessary to defend fair use even inside of that time period, and to roll back some obnoxious interpretations of copyright which lead to things like mashups or even the opening beats to "Ice Ice Baby" being cause for suit. I would also demand the abolishment of DRM.

@sir This is interesting! I find it interesting that you would argue for copyright protections only * after * a certain amount of time, not before; this is a fascinating concept.

I hate DRM. But I would argue for time-based DRM in this scenario, so the limitations are imposed after it's out of the public domain.

Many things in a K-drama look like Thailand now except that the story was in 1989. 😅

Someday I'm going to figure out what `|>` means. At least with Elixir I can justify the syntax being like hieroglyphics because we're getting a lot out of it. Ruby is just as intimidating.

There is a demo of soapbox-fe running on gleasonator.dev. It's super buggy and missing a lot of features, but this is a proof of concept! Feel free to check it out if you want (requires creating an account).

I'm feeling more confident about the idea that Soapbox can be a separate service that runs alongside Pleroma.

It can implement features such as Groups and Recurring Donations, while being written in literally any language. It exposes endpoints like `/api/soapbox/groups` to be used by the frontend, and it can talk to Pleroma by making API calls. The frontend can literally pass a user Authorization token through the Soapbox service and then to Pleroma to get a result. If that doesn't work, Soapbox could always I/O the SQL database directly.

The best thing is, soapbox-fe can detect if Soapbox is available, and fall back to only basic Pleroma features if it isn't. Fundamentally it's just a really nice skin for a Pleroma server, but if you take the extra time you can also add the extra features. If it can manage to use only the Mastodon API to do stuff, it could work with a pluggable backend.

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