I see that you decided avoid answering the question then insulted me like some kind of gaslighting genocidal politician.

Thanks for showing everyone here that your priority is profiteering and your app is subject to capitalist enshittification.

You’ve been dodging the open source question repeatedly because IMO you’re here to make money off of our naivety.

The fediverse happily funds devs that want to help build the community. Here’s a proper fediverse style community: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager

Notice how many contributors there are and the licensing?

It is not. OP is a rent-seeking opportunist building their own closed source app that will try to upcharge you everywhere you look. If you want proof, just look at their other apps.

Here’s a review of their BlueSky app:

***** edited Feb 3 • Dilroopgill

Its annoying, I dont like it, makes me not want pro, I havent even really used the app yet just getting hit with messages telling me to upgrade, feels antifediverse

You asked for suggestions, do not have anything in the ui that if clicked makes you pay for pro and doesnt let you use it, have one tab for pro, nothing else should lead you to that, the ui is already laggy, I accidentally click a menu option not related to pro and I get a fat popup telling me to pay for features.

Pro should be optional and burried in a menu, there shouldnt be 10 different menu items that dont function and lead you to a payment page.

Developer Response Jan 31

Hi,

Thanks for your input! I’m sorry if this makes your experience with SoraSNS less favorable!

Like most other iOS Fediverse apps, this app contains in-app purchase to enable certain features. If you let me know which features you are looking to use in specific that triggered the purchase alert, I would make these features free or paid only after several days of usage.

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You shouldn’t. It’s closed source and rent-seeking.

Now open source it and make it free or GTFO.

The only expressly illegal crypto technologies are mixers like Tornado cash.

Also, the law doesn’t define morality. Illegality just means that it threatens the parties in power (in this case, the Fed) enough that they have made laws against it.

A list from Suckfeed of things that are illegal but arguably not immoral:

• Ringing up two bananas instead of four to six at the grocery self-checkout. Produce is already inflated.
• Smoking pot outdoors. I use it for pain control and to help me walk. I have to carry it out and about, or I collapse.
• Riding your bike on the sidewalk.
• In at least 68 different countries, it is illegal to be gay.
• leaving your ID at home. POC have been killed for not having ID.
• In New York state, there are laws against ‘fortune tellers’ that are still on the books. I remember going through my penal code book in school and asking, ‘WTF?!’ It’s just one of those old things that state legislature doesn’t have time or incentive to change and goes back culturally to the racial stigma of ‘gypsy’ scam artists.
• Permits or anything that is punishable by fine just means it’s legal for the rich."
• In my country, it’s illegal to feed stray animals, which are mostly very friendly. On the other hand, it’s perfectly legal, and I see it hundreds of times a day, to litter everywhere you want. Trash, plastic, cigarette butts are everywhere, the air is polluted and so is the water. Anyone can take down a tree or row of trees and destroy a forest, but you can’t feed stray puppies and kittens? Seriously?
• Loitering, aka vagrancy, was criminalized as a way to arrest Black people, especially Black men.
• Any sort of consensual crime. Drugs, prostitution, gambling, weird sex. If everyone is consenting, I think it being legal makes it more regulated and much safer.
• what The Adjuster did last year.
• Sex work! It’s a consensual transfer of money for services. The only reason it became illegal is because it gave women independence, and the only reason it is dangerous now is because it’s illegal. Legalize it, regulate it, and make people in the industry feel safe to report crimes and abuse.
• Assisted death. Terminally ill people should absolutely have the right to die with dignity on their own terms, instead of drawn-out, painful, oftentimes expensive, slow deaths.
• Downloading college ebooks for free instead of spending $400 on the latest version. Usually, all they did was change the spelling of a few words and called it v87.12458281648391846 of the book, and then they required it for your college class.
• Pirating media that isn’t available for purchase in your area. You weren’t going to get my money either way.
• Loitering in a park. I’ve always wondered why this is illegal in some places. The point of a park is to loiter.
• There’s a stoplight on my commute where I need to turn left. The light is a hard red/not on a timer. It’s not motion-detected. So even at 5:30 a.m., when there is zero traffic in the lanes ahead or behind me, I must wait for the timer or risk a photo-triggered ticket. The left turn lane should be a blinking yellow arrow at all times, TBH.
• Jaywalking and crossing the street on a red light, as a pedestrian, when there are no cars around.

Fair point!

In the (IMO rare) rare case of a terrorist attack in an anarchist (maybe more like an anarcho-syndicalist) society, it would be handled locally like it was for a thousand years before organized governments were formed.

There would be FAR less terrorism because terrorism is just the violent reaction to injustices perpetrated BY THE STATE by people that feel they’ve been wronged by the state.

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Personally, I don’t never gain weight. I really should lose weight.

It’s cool and all. But a completely new art form? I think you’re overselling it…then again, if it’s a marketing tactic, it’s a solid one.

It deserves it. That software works SO poorly right now. I went to edit a post I made and it crashed the app. Figuring that was a fluke, I tried again and it crashed the whole app every single time without fail.

Another time, I tried to post a video that was cropped to Loops and IT LOST MY ACCOUNT PERMANENTLY and won’t let me use that username anymore. Guess I don’t need a Loops account anymore? 🤷‍♂️. Tech support was nonexistent so I just wait until hopefully the dev gets his head out of his ass long enough to fix his buggy, shit software that makes the rest of the fediverse seem like dumbasses.

The best part: the sole dev of both of these apps doesn’t think he needs any help and refuses to open source them. The Kobe Bryant quintessential ball hog of software engineering.

People are so sexist!

Don’t they know that an Asian woman was the director of the project? Looking at the standard thought-process from the big studios nowadays, that alone should have brought the project success.

Oh sick. What’s it written in?

10K could be leveraged toward making oil executives live in constant fear.

Please explain to me what Biden and Trump would have done differently in the context of sending our tax money to turn Muslim people into hamburger.

Literally ranked choice voting will never ever happen. We will always have First Past the Post and it will never change. This country is a sham democracy and I refuse to participate.

Fuck everyone in the US Government except Rashida Motherfucking Tlaib.

I’m going to write in Rashida Tlaib. It’s all bullshit. What is happening right now proves it. Even fucking Bernie Sanders sounds like a Warhawk right now.

Ps. You’re all a bunch of lesser evil voting shitlibs. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.

What did your harm reduction get us when we put Biden in office:

• genocide with our tax money
• cop city
• stoking the Cold War and enthusiastically sending our tax money to interfere in another country’s business BECAUSE IT’S WHITE PEOPLE to enrich the Military Industrial Complex rather than helping US citizens
• overturned Roe vs. Wade
• no marijuana legalization (mark my words: until the primaries or GE next year when it will help Biden in the election)
• Medicare for those who can afford it
• austerity
• austerity
• more austerity

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I’m baffled by this photo. It is objectively below average and yet it’s being shared here like it’s some brilliant work of photographic genius.

• horizon doesn’t match the cropping and doesn’t do anything interesting that would make it seem intentional.

• random roofs of tents are creeping into frame and again, they don’t seem intentional

• underexposed and muddy

• it’s shot at sunset but we don’t even get the hint of extreme contrast that sunset offers. Did you shoot a jpeg in a situation that would have been far better with raw and post-processing? It certain seems like it by the look of the blown out street lights.

I honestly could take a better photo by just waving a camera around and taking massive amounts of photos then selecting one.

NO! That’s a stupid question.