NeatNit

Nobody does

It's the whole copyright question. Users own the copyright on their own posts, and it's the terms of service that are supposed to say what the server and other federated servers are allowed or not allowed to do with them. I don't even remember if there were terms of service when I joined Lemmy... But assuming there were, and they didn't explicitly say whether it or federated servers can use user content to train AI, then it becomes a legal question that can only be determined by courts.

Note that this determination will only apply in the country/state where that court is.

IANAL

Technically? Probably, yes. Legally? I don't think so (never looked into it)

They're hit or miss. This one is mildly amusing to me. It's been going strong 3 comics a week for how many years now? Not all of them are good of course, some I consider just bad but I think most weeks have at least one good one.

Well, not entirely, Google does have a paid tier but I see your point (that's not their primary source of revenue)

I got this email too... And I'm already paying for Mail Plus so it doesn't apply to me

The issue in question is: should a company that provides a product, one whose value proposition is focused on a cohesive ecosystem and experience, be forced to break down their walled garden to let people create a new app store or install apps in a way that’s outside that companies vision for their own product.

Yes. Because it's too big and too popular to be making niche arguments like this. Its customer base is vast and diverse, nearly as diverse as the population of the planet. It's absurd to suggest that every single one of those customers, or even 80% of them expect everything they do on the device to be taxed by Apple. It's their device, not Apple's.

The reason they should be forced to do this is that no one will force users to use this option. They can make it slightly out of way, just like how Android makes you explicitly allow installing apps from anywhere but the Play Store if you want to do that. And just like on Android, most users won't touch that option. Those that want it would. Just like any other general computing device on the planet.

Apple is openly acting like a government and claims it has the rights to tax anything that goes on in its realm. But it sure as fuck isn't a democratic government. About fucking time an actual government took it down a peg. Or a hundred.

Edit: FWIW, I'm definitely not singling out Apple here. All big tech companies are acting like governments and they all need to be punished for it. Or they should become actual democracies. That would be nice.

(I don't think that could ever work, not in my lifetime at least)

Yes, make him play Whac-A-Mole! I love it!

Don't get me wrong, I subscribed and I like it, but I'm still confused to hell and back

I still haven't quite figured out why !unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone exists

Some instances' admins are not so easily bought! I hope, at least.

He might, but that's the whole point of federation - there's hundreds of other instances (including the one you're using) that he can't buy all at once. If one instance gets taken over, Lemmy as a whole is still strong.

Even if he buys the organization developing Lemmy, I have faith the community will fork it and everyone will stop using Musk's version.