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  • So they dodge tax, sell things for less than market value, spend billions on advertising, have little regard for law… sound familiar? I guess the real issue is that it's not an established player in this space!

    All of these problems are fixable if you're wiling to have your own corporations bound by the same laws. Start by not allowing products to be sold at a loss, making large corps pay the tax they're due, obey the law in regard to data privacy…

    By allowing corporations to write the law they've inadvertently allowed foreign players to play them at their own game. This kind of company would not exist in a health market.











  • Like Lemmy is to Reddit, FOSS clients are to paid alternatives.

    The only way I can see to stay clear of business practices I don’t like is to support the FOSS model.

    I’m not saying Sync isn’t a good client, or that the dev has anything other than the best intersts of his users in mind, it’s that at any point a decision can be made which you have no control over. Service models for software, for example, very rarely seems to be in the users interests.

    Give the FOSS clients a shot, they are also constantly improving!





  • I’m struggling to think of a reason that Meta is implementing ActivityPub protocol in Threads. There are a couple of possible reasons:

    • access to an instant user base
    • potential to influence a worrying rival

    What I can’t figure out is how they intend to make money while allowing external instances access to the content? After all, any client could be used to strip out ads. It just doesn’t feel like it benefits Meta.

    It leaves me a bit worried that they intend to divert the protocol in some way.