You might be able to force them to if you threaten to DMCA them for hosting your own copyrighted content. Posts and comments on Lemmy are technically literature which is copyright protected, and while you give your own instance license to host them via their Terms of service, you don’t necessarily give the same permission to remote instances like Hexbear.
That fun little loophole with how federation works, you can explicitly request instances exclude you or it can really suck for them. Lemmy should probably have a built-in option for this to exclude yourself in this manner but don’t count on the devs to add it unless people start DMCAing Hexbear and ML to “opt-out” of federation with those servers.
You might be able to force them to if you threaten to DMCA them for hosting your own copyrighted content. Posts and comments on Lemmy are technically literature which is copyright protected, and while you give your own instance license to host them via their Terms of service, you don’t necessarily give the same permission to remote instances like Hexbear.
That fun little loophole with how federation works, you can explicitly request instances exclude you or it can really suck for them. Lemmy should probably have a built-in option for this to exclude yourself in this manner but don’t count on the devs to add it unless people start DMCAing Hexbear and ML to “opt-out” of federation with those servers.
CC: @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
I think the idea that’s your content will be rehosted by other servers and you give implicit permissions to do so should he part of your tos