On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Ian Denhardt <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's the problem I see with this: I'm running a gnu social instance on my > own server, quite literally a PC sitting under my bed. How do you justify > saying I can't make your name, as it appears on my website, running on my > hardware, a link to anywhere I please? Supposing I don't have an instance of
What I understand and think about this: I am odin.example.com (Odin Hørthe). My server on odin.example.com is authorative of the tag odin.example.com. A friend has added me as a friend on THEIR GNU social, and tags me in a picture (writing Odin, which then tags the picture as -> odin.example.com). Other servers wanting to find pictures and other information about me, use odin.example.com as source. If uglyspammer.example.net links a picture to odin.example.com noone will care for that tag, because if odin.example.com doesn't point to uglyspammer, it isn't a real tag (picture) of me. When adding a friend, say, Ian, I can also trust ian.example.com to always approve tags he's tagging me in. So there is no waiting involved in 1) Ian uploading and tagging a picture of me, 2) others finding it via my server. But with uglyspammer (which isn't a friend), I won't republish his links without approving them. Which I won't. -- Beste helsing, Odin Hørthe Omdal <[email protected]> http://velmont.no
