It's easy on Reddit because they have their own username generator when you sign up, but the usernames being used here are very telling. Random letters is literally the absolute bare minimum effort for randomly generating usernames. A competent software engineer could make something substantially better in an afternoon and I feel like an adversarial nation-state would be using something like a small language model trained solely on large lists of scraped usernames.
Yup. This isn't an anti-piracy thing, it's a fuck-over-people-who-don't-like-google thing.
That seems to be untrue.
DRM is to prevent piracy. This does not prevent piracy unless it only applies to apps that cost money.
What legitimate reason would an app developer have for not wanting to let people install their app from sources other than the play store?
Neither can I, that's why I think that allowing this feature to be used for free apps is purely a malicious move by Google to push people away from sideloading in general.
exceot for the fact that it MASSIVELY inflates their stats for investors and advertisers.
Ah yes, the Reddit strategy.
John F. Kennedy?
The solution, to me, would seem to be to divide the revenue up on an individual basis instead. Does some sort of licensing issue prevent this? I'd think that the legitimate record labels would want to fix this loophole ASAP so that they can get more money.
That's a very legitimate reason! I was talking about free apps, but I failed to mention that in my comment. My bad. Any legit reason for free apps?
Matrix is a laggy dumpsterfire. Messages take longer to send in Matrix than they do in Lemmy, and Lemmy isn't even supposed to be a real-time chat app.
Whaaaat the fuuuuuck? Kind of ironic for a libertarian to be spouting nazi shit. They either don't know what libertarianism is or don't know what fascism is.