Original introduction - https://lemmy.world/post/28787892
https://blog.gregtech.eu/posts/lemvotes/
I think this is great tool to identify vote manipulation accounts.
Thanks @[email protected] for making me aware of this.
And thank you @[email protected] for developing it.
Just be aware it lists all downvotes first
I am not going to just swallow their bullying but will keep speaking my mind on it, I want to have some agency for the content I post. They spoil my fediverse experience. It’s not like they’d stop if I’d just shut up.
ok… what is the TLDR?
They reupload your original photos to different communities?
Yes. With the stated goal to reduce the already measly interaction I get posting niche stuff because I post it to the ‘wrong’ community.
You own the copyright on the photos? Why not copyright strike/claim/dmca the reuploading as unauthorized?
They have full support of the mod of that community (threelonmusketeers), who knows very well that i don’t want my content to be reposted there, as they downvote all my complaints about it.
Sopuli admins see no problem with what they’re doing and I also chatted with @[email protected] and he also thinks it’s fine.
do you own the copyright?
Well I guess, these are my photos and videos.
Then you can use the copyright system against people reuploading your content without authorization.
The best outcome seems to be they stop posting your copyrighted content, and that is exactly what the very overburdened arm of copyright is designed to do. Since they wont listen to your requests to not upload copyrighted material they don’t leave you much choice.
sopuli.xyz says its based in Finland and the country does have robust legal system including normalized notification of infringement practices. https://www.cupore.fi/wp-content/uploads/migrated-assets/tiedostot/pilottitutkimusraportit/pilotreportds9_sanctionsandremediesforcopyrightinfringement.pdf Take a look at page 19 - Section H
the next step would be to make the owners of sopuli.xyz officially aware of the copyright infringement hosted by their community
second escalation would be to file a DMCA request with their US based domain name provider, and to their german hoster
Basically keep escalating in written form so nobody can claim ignorance
Thank you very much for the pointers, I will look into it when I get home and find the time. But seriously fuck @[email protected] for even making me consider this.