> someone setting up an Instagram account for someone else who is only on TikTok and then copying all of their content there, because they prefer using the Instagram client
I don’t mean to challenge my teenage hero, but I don’t see why this is even remotely okay.
I don't think it is OK--in fact, I'm kind of assuming most people would think that that is not OK and leaning into that for my analogy: that isn't OK... and so neither should we consider public/discoverable Twitter account mirrors on Mastodon to be OK--so hopefully we are actually in agreement! ;P
For Twitter at least, this seems to be explicitly allowed by their terms of service[0]:
"You retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Services. What’s yours is yours — you own your Content (and your incorporated audio, photos and videos are considered part of the Content).
By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed (for clarity, these rights include, for example, curating, transforming, and translating). This license authorizes us to make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same."
I don’t mean to challenge my teenage hero, but I don’t see why this is even remotely okay.