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		iFire on Jan 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternative... Most of the decentralized Twitter alternative systems required AGPL to join. Are there any MIT licensed social protocols?

wut42 on Jan 9, 2021 [–]

Protocols aren't licensed. You're totally free to implement an ActivityPub server with any license you like. AGPL is preferred by the community, but it's not mandatory. Honk uses ISC, Smithereen is unlicense, pubgate is BSD-3-Clauses, ….

iFire on Jan 10, 2021 | [–]

I appreciate listing some non-AGPL ActivityPub servers! Thanks.

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