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Privacy
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It's always struck me as a bit odd that people choose to use a paid proprietary app to access a free and open source social media platform which is developed and hosted entirely by volunteers based on donations. Whilst I don't have a problem with people making money off of Lemmy apps, making them proprietary and with ads seems against the spirit of Lemmy
radiowaves are free, radio sets aren't.
Transmitters aren't free
It might be greed or to offset their server costs. Or both.