Posts from catodon.rocks

...there wouldn't be a Jerry for Tom to chase anymore. And, depending on the owl (e.g. an Eurasian Eagle-owl, ), there wouldn't be a Tom, either (yes, an owl can hitch a domestic cat if she's large and powerful enough, there's even a photo I once saw depicting this happening and the cat seemed to be very confused "")."Hootie" (or "Ollie") would bring about the ultimate end for the entire cartoon in the first episode she were to be featured, perhaps in the first three seconds of her appearance. And this end would be the most quick and the most silent end for a cartoon, like, ever.

I use Misskey forks (currently Catodon, after having migrated from Calckey) to interact with the Fediverse, especially the part encompassing the threadiverse (mostly Lemmy), because I like having a microblogging feed while being also able to interact with (and posting my own) Lemmy threads (and Catodon, specifically, implemented this interesting "Forums" feature for better interoperability with Lemmy, a feature of which I'm using right now to post this question thread).Because I don't have a Lemmy account anymore, and because federation isn't always immediate between the threadiverse and what I'd call the "microbloggingverse" (encompassing Mastodon, Friendica and several other platforms, including Misskey and its forks), I developed the habit of using some non-Cloudflare Lemmy instances (including, but not limited to, lemmy.ml) as a guest to browse global Lemmy threads sorted by "New Comments", copying its federated URL and fetching it directly from my Misskey side whenever I want to interact with a post or comment.I also use said Lemmy instances to check my own modlog because I'm not entirely sure if I'd see anything (e.g. some DM or notification) from my side if a post/comment were to be removed or if some community/instance kicked/banned me. As far as it seems, my modlog is clean, and so is the modlog for my earlier, older Calckey account, I don't seem to have broken any rules so far...... but I don't know. I recently interacted with some threads that doesn't show up in my profile when seen from any of the Lemmy instances I use for browsing Lemmy. If said post don't show up, something tells me that I wouldn't be able to see modlogs for not-properly-federated posts if a mod action were to happen.Does this proceed? Could it be happening that I'm not seeing modlog entries for my own Misskey accounts because these entries didn't properly federate with the instances I'm relying on to browse Lemmy? Or is this just because I've so far been successfully respectful towards my peers and never broke any community/instance rules (despite my own replies sometimes making my imposter syndrome scream inside me)?

Licensing wasn't exactly a thing I used to think about for the personal projects I create. I used to use Creative Commons and WTFPL almost interchangeably (the former for artworks, the latter for code), as if these were to mean the same "I don't care about what you're gonna do with this creation" (narrator voice: ).But, then, one aspect I've been thinking about for my ongoing project (doing a 3D model of a full, animatable owl I've sculpted from scratch in Blender), an aspect of which will likely influence other projects I happen to create after the ongoing one, is licensing.To the one hand, I don't want to require attribution, I don't care about attribution precisely because I'm taking nothing with me after I die someday. Preferably, I'd want it to be part of Public Domain so every human and (who knows?) non-human living being could use it for free (even though I myself had my costs while creating the things I create, it's important to me that I release my personal creations free of charge so these are affordable for anyone to use/modify/appreciate).To the other hand, and this is a feeling that have grown more and more intense deep down inside me as the days pass (a hatred for capitalist greed exploiting the creations originally made and dedicated for free; a hatred for the exploitation of the means of artistic production), I don't want projects deriving from and/or using this creation to be closed behind private property, I don't want these to be put behind paywalls.Originally, I'd be inclined to use CC0, as my initial thought was to dedicate my creations to the Public Domain (as all art and knowledge should be, IMHO), but then there's the phenomenon in which a corporation (e.g. certain corporations with cartoonish rodent mascots) takes something from PD, does enough to be past the legally-required threshold for it to be copyrighteable, then close it behind paywalls and trademarks. And even though I'm just a random nobody, I do NOT want this to happen with my creations, I do NOT want this to happen more than I do not want to require attribution. I want it to stay free, free as in and, especially, free as in (free of charge). I also want everything that ever makes use of it, as well as every derivative of it, to be free.As far as I could research about this (especially as IANAL), I learned that, once I dedicate something to PD, reinforcing PD over the derivatives/uses is legally impossible (makes sense as there's no such thing as a "Earthly Representative of the Public Domain Commons" to sue/punish every corporation daring to privatize something taken for free from the Commons).It seems like I have only two major choices: I can choose between dedicating my creations to PD (and therefore waiving all my rights over these, including my future ability to sue whoever puts price tags and/or trademarks on top of the things meant to be free) and accept that a landlord can do past the to exploit these for corporate whims, or I can choose to keep some rights over these (particularly the attribution part) for me to have the legal means to enforce a share-alike licensing requiring the derivatives and projects using these to inherit the gratisness.Are these my only choices, really? Is there something, preferably tested legally across jurisdictions, which I could use for my projects (especially for my ongoing 3D project once I feel ready to release it) to satisfy this will? Or it's actually something impossible (enforcing gratisness)? If my current jurisdiction influences on the available choices, I'm Brazilian.

Hello world from Catodon!I have no idea if this will work 😅 but let's see!Hopefully first post from Catodon (Misskey/Sharkey fork, primarily microblogging) to a remote threadiverse community. Feature is still very experimental.https://catodon.rocks/