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Can you elaborate on the last part of your comment? I’m not sure I fully understand, though it sounds like we mostly agree.

I’m not sure why you threw in that digression about political leaning at the end, though. It makes your last statement pretty vague.

The “paradox of tolerance” is a concept I love to bring up time and time again.

No tolerance for the intolerant, lest intolerants take over tolerant spaces and turn them intolerant.

black0ut@pawb.social is right, you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Open-source software development can be very slow sometimes. It’s not about speed, it’s about expertise. Like I said previously, they likely hold a day job besides developing Lemmy.

I’ve been in the open-source scene for about a decade, it takes a LOT of developers or a corporate sponsor to do any work long-time. Products live and die because volunteers run out of time and / or interest.

Again, I invite you to fork Lemmy yourself and maintain it faster than the original devs could. Put your money where your mouth is.

Fork it, it’s free.

I’d love to see you try to maintain the codebase. That’s not free.

OP doesn’t like the devs’ political opinion. I, too, hate tankies, but their work is not less valuable due to their opinion and they are allowed to seek monetary donations to help them do further work in the future.

This is very standard in the open-source world. No matter what you may think of the developers’ personal opinions, their work is valuable.

Also, asking for donations is not “profiting off of us(sic)”, nor is it a salary, it’s just a text prompt hoping you’ll give the devs a kickback for their contribution. You can just ignore it and go about your day.

They likely don’t make enough to live off of from those donations.

These are app stores, not app services, like GApps, GPS or MicroG

Absolutely, they get shafted the most.

Yes precisely, and merchants increase their prices to account for those unknown processing fees since it varies wildly from card to card.

If you carry a balance, you will pay interest, hence reducing the value of your rewards.

Those benefits are usually your own money + the money of those who fail to make payments since merchants have to increase their prices to compensate for credit card fees.

They indirectly steal from you, launder the funds and present it back to you as a “benefit”, but only if you’ve been a good boy.

This is a similar principle to modern loyalty programs. In exchange for your personal information and your eyes (advertising), you get to pay slightly above the regular price and accumulate ✨points✨ while other schmos get a jacked up price that pays for your points (or the value of your points is built into the price of the items you purchase).