Kevnyon

am not a lawyer

It’s the same with messengers, if your friends arent there how useful is that foss messenger really?

This is so difficult. How many people would be willing to switch to Signal or Wickr for one friend? And then what if none of their friends don’t want to switch? And then the friends of those people, etc. Trying to switch workgroups, family, friends and all of their friends as well is a lost cause, it would never happen.

Some people on here will never realize that only paid devs putting in full days will make a platform like Lemmy grow to even a fourth of what Reddit is right now. Part time, unpaid devs will never grow this platform to that size and one way or another, those devs will want to be able to support themselves and that is either through donations or somekind of monetization, which may or may not include monetizing user data. It’s just honest facts that it costs money to run servers and that money has to come from somewhere. It takes time to develop an app and in the case of Sync (probably Boost as well) it’s just one dev and that takes a lot of his time. Nobody would do that amount of work for free.

According to the Boost dev in this thread, its literally required by Google to say that. So I am guessing that any social media app has to say that.

Same here, on desktop it is my go-to. Sync doesn’t support it yet, so can’t use it.

Understand that Lemmy.world is run by volunteers. It is not a company. They don’t have the resources to fight legal battles.

And this is one of the reasons why a decentralized option just isn’t as viable to replace a centralized option as another centralized option would be. I hate to say it but its just facts.