I love how this statement is dripping with condescension for the people who built the service he's currently driving into the ground - all while thinking of himself as some kind of super genius.

People always call this a market failure while willfully ignoring that whenever markets are left unchecked, this is the inevitable outcome.

Also forced them into arbitration, then refused to arbitrate the dispute.

Let's see Paul Allen's turntable!

Though if I had to guess, it's going to be stuff like "build a shit ton of nuclear power plants, use e fuels for cars, use green hydrogen, develop fusion power, and generally do all the things that allow us to believe that we have to change absolutely nothing in our lives."

Boost, Slide and Sync are all coming to Lemmy. Lots of other great apps, too, though - I've recently been using Thunder and Connect.

Here's a Lemmy Apps Directory with 27 apps for Lemmy.

I'll start believing in Reddit's commitment to direct democracy when users will be able to also vote out admins and u/spez if they don't like their decisions.

Until then, it's just corporatism under the guise of some fluffy words.

Otherwise why would businesses pay to host interesting content for free?

See, I think that's the problem.

Wikipedia is one of the all-time great projects on the internet, and it keeps chugging along all without forcing miserable ads on its users or charging them a subscription fee or selling their data to the highest bidder.

And their donation drives are perfectly fine, and I'm perfectly willing to give them some money every now and then as long as they're asking for what is needed to keep the site up and running.

Maybe not everything should be run as a for-profit business, with an overriding goal of monetizing clicks and maximizing profits?

A few months ago, the message was also "Reddit is not going to start charging for API access."

I'm not saying old.reddit.com is going away in the very near future, but I also wouldn't put too much trust into whatever spez says on any given day.

Worth noting that for the 11 years, Reddit didn't host any images.

It's hard to say why Reddit thought it was necessary to host their own images.

It's not so much that iOS is confusing.

It's more that you have to learn which things are just completely impossible to do on iOS for the single reason that Apple doesn't want users to do those things.

On Android, things that should be possible from a technical point of view are generally possible. Might take a while to figure things out, but generally, things are achievable.

On iOS, there's either a fairly straightforward way to do things, or there's not even a point in trying, because Apple has locked that shit down to the point where you'll just waste days trying to find a way, only to give up on the end.

I've got endless examples, from trying to move files/documents/music on, to, or from an iOS device in a non-Apple-approved way to sending media over non-Apple-approved channels to something as simple as syncing calendars in a way that Apple doesn't like.

On Android, all of these things can be achieved in a couple of minutes.

I used to bother with jailbreaking and all that jazz - but ultimately, to me, owning a shiny Apple device isn't worth having to deal with all the randomly imposed limitations.

I think it's also a chicken-or-egg question:

Apple users are more willing to pay for apps. So if you're a dev and you want to release a paid app, iOS is the platform of choice. So more devs release paid apps on iOS, so iOS becomes the platform with more paid apps. So users are more used to pay for apps. So paying for apps is normalized, so Apple users are more willing to pay for apps.

Etc. etc. etc.