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It is. The data is in the DB and filesystem and can be manually removed. Having a button that does it is a convenience. It's the instance operator who will be in trouble if they don't. The code is provided with a license that literally says
You are using it and/or hosting it at your own peril.
And the devs said this
Then the fediverse erupted and made blog posts, toots, @'ed the devs directly, etc.
Also Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing. Interalise that. They owe use fucking nothing - except maybe the respect we show them and if none is shown, they don't owe any respect back.
Anti Commercial AI thingy
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0This is literally the same argument that reddit took.
This argument would be no use to reddit since they are the "instance operator" in that case.