mesamune@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agoNintendo targets Reddit pirates in piracy crackdownoverkill.wtfexternal-linkmessage-square113fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·25 days agoMicrosoft can still remove all copies. Whereas another instance can’t delete my account or comments from the instance I’m on. The most they could do is block it from theirs.
minus-squareIllecors@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·25 days agoNo it can’t. You’re still thinking about github and its built in “forking” mechanism.
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·24 days agoWell yeah, you can copy the code and put it on an entirely different platform. But that’s like saying Prime video is federated because you can rip it and keep a copy elsewhere. GitHub is the platform, and it’s not Federated.
Microsoft can still remove all copies.
Whereas another instance can’t delete my account or comments from the instance I’m on. The most they could do is block it from theirs.
No it can’t. You’re still thinking about github and its built in “forking” mechanism.
Well yeah, you can copy the code and put it on an entirely different platform.
But that’s like saying Prime video is federated because you can rip it and keep a copy elsewhere.
GitHub is the platform, and it’s not Federated.