We've heard your feedback on the Terms of Service updates for mastodon.social and mastodon.online, and we're pausing the implementation date (previously announced to users via email as 1st July 2025) so we can take further advice and make improvements.
It may take us a moment to consult with the right people, so please bear with us while we do so. As always, we appreciate your patience and support.
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JBrickelt963 ✊(φ)🚩
in reply to Mastodon • • •bazkie 👩🏼💻 bitplanes 🎵
in reply to Mastodon • • •Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉
in reply to Mastodon • • •@PrivacyMatters
Unknown parent • • •Andy Piper
in reply to @PrivacyMatters • • •John Robinson
in reply to Mastodon • • •Detun3d
in reply to Mastodon • • •Jo - pièce de résistance
in reply to Mastodon • • •Ronan
in reply to Mastodon • • •lobingera
in reply to Mastodon • • •((Jann Gobble)) 🏳️🌈
in reply to Mastodon • • •Hey @mcc, did you see this? ⬆️👏
Thanks for making noise about it!
Silmathoron ⁂
in reply to Mastodon • • •🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦
in reply to Mastodon • • •Michal Špondr
in reply to Mastodon • • •ForeverAndaDay
in reply to Mastodon • • •DC Deejay 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦
in reply to Mastodon • • •Number1SummerJam
in reply to Mastodon • • •jeremy
in reply to Mastodon • • •Awesome, thanks for listening to our concerns and feedback.
Trust is important, this is how you keep ours.
FreediverX
in reply to Mastodon • • •Thank you for taking these concerns seriously.
But rather than just focusing on the TOS verbiage, you should also scrutinize the people involved in creating them, as their values do not seem aligned with the community’s.
Paul Hutchings
in reply to Mastodon • • •Rachel Lawson
in reply to Mastodon • • •peter honeyman
in reply to Mastodon • • •FinchHaven sfba
in reply to Mastodon • • •Not going to put any (more) effort into this except to point out that the Issue on Github is now closed to further comment, thus:
"I'm going to close this issue at this
point - there is a lot of feedback we've
gathered from it, and we will be
consulting with those offering support
as we're able to. Thank you."
"ha!
Wow, this is not the first time that Mastodon / Gargron / his proxy-of-the-moment has shut down a convo on Github that I've seen
Not going to bother trying to find them, but the general template runs something like:
"I've / we've read this thread. Your opinions have been received. We're going to go ahead and do what we had previously decided, out-of-band and without public participation, because this is our software and we're going to do what we want to with it."
Don't anyone forget who actually owns Mastodon dot * gGmbH software, people, all the lawyer-speak smokescreen about "non-profit" notwithstanding"
Here: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content
mcclure (GitHub)LikeTapestry | budiarto anang
in reply to Mastodon • • •Tim Chambers
in reply to Mastodon • • •The Lexi Company
in reply to Mastodon • • •Gary Parker
in reply to Mastodon • • •pndy
in reply to Mastodon • • •did anyone mention that you've sent "updates to our terms of service" message 3 times at 3 hours intervals?
or perhaps only i was treated in a special way... 💀
Karen E. Lund 💙💛
in reply to Mastodon • • •Twitter: We heard users complain about changes to our ToS. We are therefore moving up the change date and taking away your blue checkmarks.
Facebook: We heard users complain about changes to our ToS. We are therefore making changes retroactive to your tenth birthday and adding all your exes to your friends list. This cannot be undone.
Mastodon: We heard users complain about changes to our ToS. We are therefore pausing changes while we re-think this.
Helena B
in reply to Mastodon • • •Alpha Male Martha Stewart 🍉🌈
in reply to Mastodon • • •The Nexus of Privacy
in reply to Mastodon • • •George Baily
in reply to Mastodon • • •sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞
in reply to Mastodon • • •Jake
in reply to Mastodon • • •El Duvelle
in reply to Mastodon • • •Since many answers are asking what was the problem, here is a thread explaining it (it has to do with a "binding arbitration waver"):
(Quoting @pluralistic)
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11470688…
Cory Doctorow
2025-06-18 23:09:29
WhoDisturbsMySlumber
in reply to Mastodon • • •Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋
in reply to Mastodon • • •clever boi
in reply to Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋 • • •@mackuba tldr from the github convo is (a) license should not be irrevocable and (b) arbitration clause should be removed.
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content
mcclure (GitHub)devsimsek
in reply to Mastodon • • •Pete
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