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Whoever's doing this wouldn't be using Lemmy, Kbin, or Mastodon code. They'd likely write up some custom ActivityPub service that listened in on that protocol. ActivityPub is an open protocol so trying to put some kind of "no profit" restriction on it at this point would be impossible, and having it on there from the start would have killed its adoption.

Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon are all currently licensed under the GPL so good luck trying to retroactively put that genie back in the bottle too. The GPL allows for-profit companies to run the code with no further restrictions.

Europe's got the GDPR, if you really want to try some kind of legal route to counter this, but I don't think it's very likely to work well.

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