This is the lazy option that just works, the free tier is decent but their paid one is so cheap that you can run it for years with the price of a single Rapberry Pi

See: trains

China and most European countries have high speed rail and well maintained networks.

USA has: one chonky boy pulling like 256 cars on a wonky track

They did reverse that one pretty fast

Engagement is eyeballs looking at ads

Engagement.

It’s all they measure, what makes people reply to and react to posts.

People in general are stupid and can’t see or don’t care if something is AI generated

The developer is legendary for not changing the UI, he does what he likes and if you don’t like it you can use any other software. But Calibre is still the best at what it does.

There are solutions like Calibre-Web that bypass the UI with a better one, they offer a limited number of features though

Precisely

Fastmail and bring your own domain is the way.

In this case it’s not “security”, it’s offloading the responsibility of security to a 3rd party.

If the enterprise app leaks data, they’re the ones responsible. Not you, the IT guy who chose it

Oracle has entered the chat

And in many countries downloading is just fine, sharing isn’t.

And in a torrent swarm you always share (yes there are modded clients, but they’re a niche), making it risky

I discovered it only a while ago and during that time it has been clearly neutered. It just doesn’t work for stuff like it used to.

Most likely copyright strikes caught up to it

Have you tried Calibre?

And then the kid complains that they can’t watch ads to get diamonds.

Google allows data collection, they need it because they’re an ad company.

Apple will make their products shitty rather than spy on their users. Their profits come from hardware and software sales. Their ad revenue is a rounding error

You’re going to pay either way. Subscription (iOS) or scummy ads all over (Android)

I’d rather pay than subject my kids to random predatory ads.

One time payment would be best of course, but it’s not a viable business model in most cases

I work in mobile games.

You should’ve seen the fits the Marketing department threw when Apple removed tracking (IDFA). It made conversion tracking almost impossible and thus worthless.

There is a difference. A clear difference.

It’s an industry fact that iPhone users are more willing to pay for stuff.

It works in mobile games too, Android users just don’t spend. They can be tracked better because Google DGAF, but iPhone users rake in the cash.

CapCut was THE app for editing video. It was made by Bytedance. It was banned along with TikTok.

This is Zuck trying to take over that niche

“Exists” yea but not really usable, it’s more raw than Pixelfed