If they’re really just after data at all costs, they could easily spin up an instance that has no apparent link to threads and federate secretly. I agree with other arguments about not federating with them but idk, all these data privacy arguments against federating with threads are so dumb. If they want it, they’ll get it because getting it is so absurdly easy.

Not sure what you mean. They can already pull any public data on lemmy, as can anyone else.

Usually if you complain you can get a real refund. The other post was Amazon and they usually bend over backwards to make customers happy. Still pretty shitty that you have to jump through some hoops, though.

Oof that’s a bummer.

I was speaking more in the sense for general browsing. I’m not familiar with the admin tools for any of the apps.

Source? The sync dev said that google’s ad code isn’t ever initialized if you pay. Don’t see why it wouldn’t be the same with boost.

If you’re going to run Minecraft then Google “Paper MC”.

Honestly would much rather recommend Fabric unless you’re looking to host a large scale public server. Serverside optimization mods like Lithium and Starlight are great and preserve the vanilla gameplay unlike Paper which breaks or disables a lot of mechanics by default.

Literally no one on the face of the earth has ever said that. We’re actually talking about an app that has a paid option without ads.

Comparing a solo dev to large corporations isn’t really convincing me.

I don’t know about that. I’m a sync user and some of the foss options are very good by now. I use sync because of familiarity and I like the dev so don’t mind dropping some money to support him.

Spotify runs at 320kbps AAC which is totally fine quality-wise.

There are plenty alternatives which is great. I think it’s just an absurd take to bash a solo dev who is working on an app as their full time job for trying to make money.

This is such an unbelievably naive take. People’s time is worth something. Relying just on donations from a small percentage of users here and there is not going to cut it for someone who is developing the software full time.

I did for a bit because the chat heads are nice. Eventually switched to google’s message app because I like being able to view and respond to texts from my desktop.

The image is just a screenshot from this site: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=90

I don’t know anything about licensing for use on wikipedia but maybe you’d want to reach out to the site’s devs?

Yeah I do miss the activity on my frontpage on reddit. I find myself browsing all most of the time here when I don’t remember the last time I looked at /r/all on reddit. Sync and soon Boost coming out is going to be great in potentially bringing more people over.

I’ve heard good things about sh.itjust.works too

Downtime depends on your instance. I switched from lemmy.world to lemm.ee a little while back and haven’t had any issues. Seems a lot more reliable.

It’s kind of hard to have thriving discussions on niche topics as one person, unfortunately.

Huh? You can test it though. The app’s functionality is totally free. You’re just not entitled to an ad free experience if you don’t pay.