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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Google and Microsoft didn't "kill" the decentralised e-mail of yesteryear. They beat it fair and square

Sure, they might've cornered the market fair and square, but they're certainly doing anticompetitive things in keeping it cornered.

Just try setting up a mail server not connected to any of the big corpos (Google, MS, Cloudflare or their clients with more niche marketing) and see who will actually recieve your mails. You most likely won't land into the Spam folder either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

But is there any precedent in selling accounts due to a court decision? Does the social media company get to close the account due to the TOS violation?

In any case, if it does get sold, it'll create an interesting situation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Microsoft should go macro-shaft themselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Dry snow doesn't sound like too bad of a proposition on its own.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All math is a lib lie! Just look at those blasphemous arabic numerals!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Was McDonalds ever cheap in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes, but framing is important. Saying "Oh look what our perfect corporate buddies over at Taylor let us do even though it's their call" (a huge lie btw.) vs. saying "We finally got this victory, we can finally do part of what we should've never have been unable to do due to corporate greed, thank you Taylor for getting some sense, it seems like your scrooges still have some semblance of a soul left" is a big difference. As always, the truth is somewhere in between these two extremes. However, I'm inclned to lean towards the latter more than the former on the spectrum.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes. Just as entering through an unlocked door isn't trespassing.

Most of the sources also have copyright notices the model gobbles up, effectively making it more like trespassing and taking the no trespassing sign home as a souvenir.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

In a few years they'll charge you monthly for the priviledge of using/knowing what it collected on you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

lifted subscription fees

So they're not charging anything?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

God. I can't believe how the bots are shifting the Overton window and how successful they are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd say "Russian trolls", but there's no saying they are Russian. The view on Lemmy a few months ago was pretty homogenous - whatever happens, Kamala is lightyears ahead of Trump on anything related to sanity. Then suddenly the "Jill Stein is a russian shill" narrative came, followed by "A vote for Kamala is a vote for genocide" (while everything points to the fact that Kamala is the best option for deescalation as far as the US ballot box options go).

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