Finally, the right answer

Though to be fair I don’t know if the age brackets of using that phrase quite line up with the one of this platforms userbase, so I think it tracks

unfortunately matrix sucks revolt isn’t federated and irc is outdated so

they show ads next to summaries of articles which, hey, blame the people for only reading the summary instead of clicking through to the source

but they do profit and I would like to see journalism Not become yet another Meta™ product

we’ve had NNTP since the 80s

and I could find maybe one or two students on my uni campus that know what this is

and also, it’s not the 80s anymore

the free clients are better anyway tbh

As an AI language learning model, I cannot share my own unique opinions.

to answer the opposite of your question i would say it’s unethical to steal things from indie developers and creators; the same way its more wrong to steal from a local corner store than it is to steal from Walmart

Not strict enough. Should be better we need a GDPR

The Canadian privacy watchdog does things? I doubt bard is any more data invasive than meta platforms and they get a pass…

some do and some are willing to learn

of course, some people are stuck in their ways but i think even the most average of laymen can see the enshittification of streaming (esp Netflix)

iOS probably not but I think you could run python stuff in termux for android

yeah exactly, for future use

i used it to copy my subscriptions to accounts i made on a few other instances, even though i have no worry Lemmy.ca will shut down any time soon, as a just in case

it went offline and no one really knows what’s going on

Yes, find a smaller instance, mastodon.social is mid anyways and some servers have them defederated because of spam

smaller instances also usually have interesting local timelines compared to big ones