lemonflavoured

Furthermore, what’s even the point of open standards if you don’t want them to be adopted.

Well, yes. There does seem to be a lot of “we want open standards but we don’t want big companies to use them” among fediverse users.

I’m pretty sure most people don’t want it to…

Its not piracy to just webscrap everything for data…

Yes it is.

Now, all that being said, my personal opinion is fuck the US legal system and fuck copyright.

Some form of copyright has to exist, and - as angrily explained to me by authors - it needs to extend somewhat beyond the life of the author. I’m certainly never going to agree with it being indefinite though.