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A post from 2 months ago which explained the context: https://lemmy.world/post/20694710

I just had a look, nothing has changed, the website is still using Lemmy's content to pretend to be active

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

its nonreciprocal for monetary gain.

they seem to be in quite a hurry into ingest remote content while not really creating any method whatsoever to attribute that content to its source, or allow their users to interact.

[–] vinay_clubsall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hello there, I am the creator of clubsall. We are not in a hurry. In fact as stated, my developer has left, that has halted our development. Also, we are a very small site with < 10 comments a month and I believe 0 posts. So federation will hardly help everyone. Still we want to implement federation, please read my update above.

My request is to agree on common and fair rules so we can be seen as upstanding community participants.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

sure. its pretty simple... dont put out a product that cannot participate fully. there are many unfinished platforms, but they dont scrape the fediverse content because, ya know, theyre unfinished.

as soon as you get full federation implemented (or even basic linkbacks to the original content), youre welcome to let everyone know so they stop blocking your scraping mechanism.

until then your unfinished product will likely be blocked.

[–] vinay_clubsall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for this. My worry is that other admins have different set of rules. Someone said clubsall should be open sourced, someone said clubsall should be self hostable, another person said, it should attribute posts and have canonical links. Unfortunately the admins do not seem to have common agreed set of rules that are fair. So no matter what we do, it seems we will be blocked. Can we have a viable alternative?

There was a discussion about having a common set of rules which had proposal which is different than yours. So I am requesting some breathing room exception based on traffic, so we can survive until we can develop more or there is a common set of rules agreed to. Would that be fair?

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i would say youre running before you can walk.

you have an unfinished product, and you say youre in no hurry.. then why do you insist on scraping the fediverse?

finish your product, or dont. if you cant, there are plenty of open source platforms you could implement today. but youre not. why not?

if you insist on building a new wheel, finish it already or stop asking why people dont want to interact with you.

[–] vinay_clubsall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The issue is that definition of "finish" varies person to person. This is why I am asking for a common set of fair rules we can agree on, so we can finish.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

im tellin ya. make a product that participates and attributes the content back to its source, or dont bother. those are your options.

as it is you are monetizing other sites content with no attribution.

[–] vinay_clubsall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Sorry allow me to ask 2 followup questions. 1 Can you explain how do you see us monetizing? 2. For attribution, currently you can see which user made the post. Should I display the server name on the sidebar?