Does it count as tracking though? What private or personal data is it? I’d also say that it’s at the very least grey area since all they’re doing is trying to prevent people from using their service in unintended ways, ie without ads.

Their obvious solution to this is make you consent to it or you can’t use YouTube.

It has nothing to do with anyone becoming “conservative”. Another advisory board would change nothing when the ones we already have are ignored and aren’t working.

60% of the country voted for gay marriage, a far more “liberal”/“progressive” thing than the voice, so saying we’re getting more “conservative” makes no sense. The fact is that the actual progressive people recognize that this was all grandstand virtue signalling, and we want more than that. “It’s better than nothing” is not a valid reason to change our constitution. How about actually doing something meaningful as a starting point instead?

Are you talking about on mobile? I don’t think people are hosting kodi and their content on their phones.

You don’t need to have local copies of all your media with kodi. A NAS works just fine.

You let people self moderate. Once you block a user you don’t see them anymore.

How is that still considered “free speech” if those people’s voices will be completely missing from the platform?

It’s free speech because they’re allowed to post there. Them choosing not to because they can’t handle other people being allowed to exercise their free speech is a them problem, not the platforms problem.

But you can’t keep out the second group unless you compromise your principles as a member of the first group.

The thing is that you don’t need to and shouldn’t “keep them out”. What you should do is just let people ignore/block/mute them.

Yeah because it’s harder to bitch and moan about data collection when you’re opting in to a program that is literally for data collection.

These are BETA DRIVERS. The point of beta releases is data collection.

You can also simply opt out if you want.

Mountain out of a mole hill.

1. Don’t install beta products if you don’t want to partake in said beta.

2. Read what you’re agreeing to and opt out of the data collection if you don’t want to have your data collected.

The display name would stick out like a sore thumb. Either it’s the only one with an @instance.name on it, or it’s the only one with 2 @instance.names.

The same reason anyone creates a new product in an existing market - they want money.

Just loading a post and doing very little you have close to 33 requests.

No you don’t. You can open Reddit and open a post with ~3:

1 for getting the posts on your front page

1 for checking your messages.

1 for getting the comments on a post.

Where are you getting “close to 33 requests from”? That post that says they’ve done “very little” and used 33 calls? Ah yes, because everyone “checks who the mods are +1” every time they log in to reddit. Every single user is a mod who checks their modmail (+1).

BTW I know how API’s work, I’m a web developer. Most people will not go anywhere close to using 1000 API calls a day.

Let’s say those 5 million folks just 1000 API calls a day ( they wont’ actually use ONLY 1000 ).

Correct - 99% of those people will use nowhere near 1000 API calls a day. Each persons subscription only has to cover the costs of their API usage.

A $5/month subscription, at $0.24/1000 api calls, gives each user just under 21,000 API calls per month. Most people aren’t going to be doing anywhere close to that.

This doesn’t even account for fees and possible server costs.

Sync doesn’t need any server costs. It’s not hosting an instance of Lemmy.

Also your maths is off by 1000x lol. The cost would be 1.2mil a day, not 1.2bil a day. You’re multiplying by 1000 for some reason, when the $0.24 already gets you 1000 api calls. So if all 5 million used 1000 calls per day, that’s 5 million x $0.24, which is $1.2mil.

Holy shit y’all. Developers need to eat too. It’s totally fine to charge for an app or serve ads.

You might be forgetting that these same developers refused to simply put in a subscription to their reddit apps to continue them, instead closing their apps and telling everyone to move to lemmy because that’s where their app will be…and now adding huge subscription fees and one-off fees on a platform that doesn’t charge them to use their API lol.

Maybe I’m just cynical but this really seems like the dollar signs lit up in the reddit app devs eyes the second reddits API changes got announced.

The UI is clunky

What do you mean by this? Is this just another “snappy” type thing that is meaningless?

That’s not “half baked” though.

I’m not googling that because that’s just going to give a bunch of people parroting what you said without giving any actual examples. What Samsung software is half baked?

I have, I’ve used it plenty. What exactly has been “half baked”?

or, for that matter, to put any effort at all into software

This makes no sense. Samsung are basically the biggest innovators in mobile software. Every big feature that google eventually adds to Android was in Samsung phones 5 years ago.

Insurance companies the world over already do this. If you live in a high crime area based on insurance claims your insurance will be higher. Has nothing to do with privacy.

I honestly don’t understand how this can launch without raytracing support on AMD cards. The game was literally made for and released on a console with an AMD card, with Ray tracing 😂