I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but hosting internet services is not free at all. I could fully understand why you’d basically force people to pay at least something instead of hoping that people choose to donate.
Lemmy is supposed to be a FOSS platform.
FOSS is free and open source SOFTWARE, i.e. the software is the free part. You’re free to host your own Lemmy instance if you’re displeased.
One of my favorite youtube videos
This is pure nostalgia for DS kids
Dark design patterns
Please provide further reading to prove your point
He doesn’t consider game bundles like e.g. humble bundle. There you can get loads of steam games which you might activate but only play a few from.
At least e.g. steam can’t arbitrarily choose to brick your colputer
The website which wants to sell your data to hundreds of “partners” pretends to be concerned about your privacy.
Would like to see some evidence supporting that beggars get an average close to $40 an hour. Searched for papers about the topic and haven’t found anything being remotely close to what you suggest.
Can someone explain what this is satire of? Or is it just random?