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  • While the title may be clever, Threads is an Instagram creation, not one of Facebook, and while both are products of Meta, Facebook content (and even Instagram content) and Lemmy content would never co-mingle.

  • I prefer they be made to suffer the indignity of paying workers a fair wage.

  • “Fair wages‽ We’ll fight this by spending hundreds of millions on a sure-to-fail legal defense of worker exploitation rather than spending far less money by paying our employees fairly!”

    — Capitalists

  • meta is trash and we don’t want its data getting all snuggly with ours. because ew.

    now you’re up to speed.

    edit: data privacy concerns are the main issue

  • getting disbarred in New York State is practically impossible without being convicted of a crime, typically one which involves malfeasance with regards to the handling of a client. He’s had his license indefinitely suspended for over a year, which is typically how these things end, but Giuliani isn’t you typical dirty lawyer.

    considering this, his disbarment (should it occur) is nothing short of a minor miracle and a strong statement by the New York State Bar of exactly how corrupt and unfit to serve as an attorney in the state they find him to be.

    This article discusses his disbarment in DC, which has different but similar standards, and NYS is also working on getting him disbarred.

    since the time he had his license suspended in both DC and NY, he hasn’t been able to practice law. even if he isn’t disbarred in one or both jurisdictions (unlikely at this point), he almost certainly will never be allowed to practice law again, as when it’s suspended in one jurisdiction, it’s effectively suspended everywhere.

  • What sane person would side with either of them?

  • As someone running a TestFlight beta, I can tell you: that’s not true. TF captures the AppleID used to sign up and how many times the app is opened and crashed, but, unless you set the app to collect other personal details (major red flag), the only other thing a Lemmy client should store is login details and app preferences.

    Are you saying that your Lemmy client is mining personal data from users phones? Why in the world would you do that?

    Edit: TF betas can also be configured for signups via a link, so that users emails are not captured by TF, and AppStore Connect only registers the users as “Anonymous”. This is how we do it. The only user emails we capture are those in our internal test group— the developers themselves.

  • votes are federated. instances that don't support downvotes only display upvotes.

  • that only works well if public transit can pick up the slack, otherwise people will, ya know, have trouble getting there.

  • personally, i would never buy a used drive

  • While I agree that nobody is entitled to the works of others, I find it both disingenuous and against the spirit of FOSS for Red Hat to lock its code behind a paywall just because it can still use the GPL due to some somewhat sneaky legal maneuvering so it can still call it "open source" by a very narrow technicality. At this point, why even bother? It's all just so slimy.

  • religion and the belief in the supernatural/paranormal. also the belief in conspiracy theories.

  • oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not simping for MSNBC-- nor any corporate news conglomerate. I was just commenting on Fox News's fall from... well, whatever it was. the top.

  • and just look at what happened to Fox News: finally knocked off of their pedestal after decades of being #1-- by MSNBC

  • Mlem is licensed under Commons Clause.

    This means that Mlem is open-source and you can do whatever you want with its source, like modifying it, contributing to it etc., but you can't sell Mlem or modified versions of it.

    Coded entirely in Swift to be native to iOS and run on Apple Silicon, there's no plans for Android support, as that would require rewriting the app from scratch in java, which none of us know (nor do any of us know the android app dev process)-- or making a crappy port, which is obviously unacceptable.

    As for kbin-- the platform and API are just different enough that they're both incompatible with Lemmy and not very easy to integrate. there's been rumors of kbin development moving towards lemmy compatibility in the future, so we're waiting to see about that. if that happens, and integrating it become easier in the future, we'll see. as of now, however, we have no plans to integrate kbin.

  • hear hear.

    i posted this yesterday, but i'll post it here again, just as a reminder:

  • tons of voters had (and still have) a huge amount of problems with how old all 3 are. it was a constant sticking point in 2016 and 2020.