That is literally what non-Open Source/capitalism is like:

• You don’t pay, you are the product
• You pay, you are the product and you pay for it

I think the issue most companies don’t realize is that we are forcing many people under a living wage, and at that point being paid better is the only thing that counts.

yep, PDAs became more widely attractive when phone functionality got added. or you have an iPod Touch.

That is the biggest reason I don’t trust Signal. They implemented Whatsapp’s encryption and while technically the encryption hasn’t been broken, the way it works forces you to leave data on your device, which has been proven dangerous in practice for the kind of people it sets out to protect.

sometimes afaik you could still have success renaming the file to .gif or .gifv I think? Telegram and Whatsapp should also work afaik.

look up mp3 – that didn’t become public domain until pretty recently (I think 2017?)

not an uncommon thing really

well, see confusion by OP. otherwise really not true.

funny enough, not true. try saving a video as mp4 but not too long and without sound (!) and it will be treated exactly like gifs on those platforms.

The big difference is that some networks just make good moderation and defending your eyes basically impossible. Not with the Fediverse, where it’s designed to be the way you like as a person and as a community.

Only outside of Mastodon. People confuse decentralized, P2P and federated and think it’s a free to all, which means fascism…

Portugal has the Uber law, all drivers have to be clearly indicated with a TVDE sticker and they need some basic qualification afaik. Also some taxi services double dip of course.