If you want to enforce that, you need to fork it and put a copyleft license on it. This is very rarely done because it’s more work to maintain software than to write it…

at least actually post it to !unexpectedfactorial@sopuli.xyz if you leave a comment like that…

They can change future versions to that, not already released ones.

works for me

the main thing I want my instance to defederate from is spambot farms, defederating because of political moderation policies is censorship and not moderation

Nah this entire thread is a perfect illustration why US First Amendment standards for free speech are (roughly) good and should be adopted in all countries. This is where it ends when you start to think it’s ok to criminalize “hate speech” or “terrorist propaganda” or “approval of criminal acts”.

https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html

IMHO messages from things you’ve signed up to are unlikely to be “spam”. I’ve always understood that word to mainly mean completely unsolicited messages from people you have no previous relationship with at all; though if it’s clearly unwanted it might include some of the former too.

How old is “old” for this purpose?

Probably mainly a matter of saving costs, you get a web interface and a standalone app from one codebase.

Desktop apps nowadays are mostly written in HTML with Electron anyway.