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  • Right but can they really not do anything about RSS readers? Seems like they can just cut the cord on their RSS feeds anytime.

  • Ah yes! Thank you. Will try this today

  • Yes! Can't believe it's 2024 and websites are still not accessible. Even the biggest companies are the worst at this... and don't even get me started on their mobile sites 🙄

  • Speaking of, does anyone know how best to block YouTube ads on my Sony TV? It uses Android and I have the YT app on it.

  • WOM has and will always be the best form of marketing and you dont need big marketing teams to do it.

    The problem is that a company doesnt need that many people to push a product. They can just pay the few they need, well. But instead, they'd just rather hire a shit ton of people and under pay all of them.

    This reply reads like we should have to pay for these big unnecessary marketing teams these companies hire, which shouldn't be the case.

  • Just depends on what works best for each of us. But personally, I agree with you. It's not that I think one company owning a ton of the services is a bad thing in itself. But history has shown us that, when a company starts to dominate a certain market, they tend to start becoming tone-deaf to our interests, because they know we can't (easily) switch and go somewhere else.

  • I really hope this is sarcasm. I couldn't imagine basing my friendships solely on whether or not they use Twitter.

  • I hope you're right!

  • Maybe Vimeo?

  • sigh So Threads can throw their posts out into the fediverse, but no one from fediverse is allowed to post comments back? Why am I not surprised? 🙄

  • Signal app is great. Would that be a better alternative? Or is that too niche for Discord users?

  • Have you tried the Signal app? Has all that and works pretty well!

  • Sure but new versions are released pretty often, which essentially means they can change their license whenever they want.

  • Interesting idea. A couple questions:

    How would it work if the open source maintainer is a commercial company?

    AFAIK there are no restrictions on when an Open source maintainer can change their license. They can do it even after their work has already been used.

    So couldn't a company like, Facebook (since they own open source React) just change their React license to this one and all of sudden start charging everyone for it? 🤔

  • Exactly what I was wondering the entire time I was listening. None of these questions were asked during the episode. A lot of handwaving and buzzword double-speak. She didn't go into any real technical detail.

  • Eh. These sorts of metrics aren't always accurate. And the source company did the study in 2016, which was a very very different internet, and doesn't go into detail about how they were able to determine this number. I would take that with a grain of salt. I agree that just having a notice somewhere is better than not, though.