Sorry, you’re quite right - I misread it to begin with.

This paper suggests you’re spot on that they’re not as profitable as other large companies, but they’re still making an awful lot of money on top of the necessary costs.

Except as highlighted, if the drug didn’t make a return on investment it wouldn’t be made. That can be true for government funded research, it’s not necessary to have a profit margin on top.

Streisand effect in action. I am never going to buy anything Nintendo, because they’re a dog-shit company. I hadn’t realised a Switch emulator existed. Andddd… My wife would really like to play Pikmin 4.

You guys have got ads on Sync? I haven’t and I’m still using the free version.

I wouldn’t recommend Sync at this stage anymore as the lone developer is gone completely AFK for months.

Despite charging £100 for a premium app tier…

Do yourself a favour and use something else. At some point I’ll try out Connect.

The prefix and suffix stars, man…

As far as I understand, this isn’t quite right (unless it’s changed recently).

If A defeds B, then A no longer sends new posts to B, accepts comments or posts from B users, or receives new posts from B. Any comments from B users on A’s old posts (made before defederation) are no longer acknowledged by A.

I think A users can still interact with B’s posts, but then I haven’t seen any beehaw users in forever. So perhaps not?

C can obviously still interact with both A and B posts normally. On posts from C, both A and B users can still interact.

So, in short defederation creates a hard wall preventing interaction between A and B. The only way A and B users can interact is on C.

It’s unfortunate as beehaw would have benefitted from a uni-directional defederation (i.e. preventing .world users from posting on beehaw, but not preventing .beehaw users from posting on .world. Unfortunately, it’s both.)

Subscribe.

Ooh. I hope this can be set as the default for ‘Copy Link’ and then I can just have the tracking when I actually want it.

No, because they add advertisements to services you pay for.

See: television, streaming services, fucking books even.

It’s just unregulated capitalism doing what unregulated capitalism does - gobble up as much revenue as possible, at the expense of everything else.

I mean, it did up until maybe now.

For context, Bungiefan_ak has no fewer than 4 alts that I’ve seen (all on different instances with the same username)

I mean, this is one of the benefits of the lemmyverse - using the same username across different instances. It’s not subversive.

That’s not to lend a defence of this guy - just didn’t want having Lemmy alts presented as a bad thing.