^ Obviously uneducated about the topic.

At least read up on JStark and the FGC-9.

Lucky the tests worked for you as they are notoriously inaccurate!

Apple absolutely does collect personal data from its users and uses that data to target advertising. They openly disclose this in their policy statements.

Stating that

They do not profit off your data

is unjustifiable when Apple makes BILLIONS from advertising.

They also have been fined by European regulators when their practices ran afoul of privacy law.

Just because they're not as bad as Google (quite a low bar) it doesn't mean they're as good as they try to sell you on.

Not just Texas. They can access them nationwide without warrants. An attempt to crowdsource a db of installations is at https://deflock.me/

This is an absolutely braindead lazy take.

The same professional journalists who've worked at these big media corporations have used the substack platform to open up sites in droves so they can focus on more niche topics, or just escape the censorship of owners and advertisers.

If you think that legitimate news can only come from a company owned by billionaires, then you're wrong.

Oh, so Rust is like JavaScript!

Isn't that because Dan hasn't open-sourced his project yet

Wrong: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/blob/dev/LICENSE

and doesn't let anybody else contribute?

Hmm, while there have been 158 contributors, a very small percent were from the other developers: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/graphs/contributors

This information is pretty easy to look up.

Leopards/faces, etc. These people were fine with contributing their cogs to the evil machine that is facebook in exchange for a ridiculous salary, but now want it to be a big deal when it affects them more specifically.

Ummm

This is the equivalent of saying that MS Outlook is a community. It's not and neither is Lemmy. Each server has its own rules, and each community on those servers can add rules beyond that.

Address a specific community or server, there's no central control over the fediverse.

How many cops has she arrested or ticketed? This is a foundational component of the calculation.

One way would be by implementing features the Lemmy devs have no interest in such as better interoperability with other fediverse platforms. If any added feature turns out to be well received and in demand, it would pressure the others to implement similar.