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@VictorVenema @FrankSonntag
ah, the issue is not technical and not social. It is juridical by nature.

See, bloggers addressing the audience in a given language, in my case German, are bound to local copyright laws. Which, in the case of Germany, is totally screwed, right now. A violation might be a typo when posting a figure with a CC licence (hence totally rightful) and still, due to the typo, you receive a warning and have to pay legal fees - regardless of your server side.

Victor Venema

@rupdecat On the upside if you blog in German, you can get money from VGWort.

Is that the reason you are no longer blogging in German? We used to have scienceblogs.de. So it seems at least possible to do this in a way that the infrastructure provider is not liable for the mistakes of the writers.

@FrankSonntag

Frank Sonntag

@rupdecat @VictorVenema After I read why scienblogs DE is shutting down, I got cold feet re. the fediscience blog:) Although I would think that there should be a way that each individual scientist is responsible for his or her blog, and not the people providing the platform.