Summary App.net, the subscription-based social network that is being developed by Dalton Caldwell’s Mixed Media Labs, has taken a significant step forward after it posted its terms of service and other policy documents to the Web for the first time, offering users to change to shape and change them. The company has also begun to take payments from its backers, offering them extended first year membership terms to show its gratitude.

Description The initial documents include Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Copyright Policy, and Subscription Terms. These are accompanied by an overview that explains the collaborate and open approach, which will see policies reviewed on a quarterly basis once they are established:

"The App.net terms of service documents live here. To facilitate transparent discussion, we encourage users to create issues and/or submit pull requests with your feedback. Our general process is to incorporate user feedback on a roughly quarterly basis based on review with our legal team, but in the early stages this may occur significantly more often."