Starbuncle

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.

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?

What legitimate reason would an app developer have for not wanting to let people install their app from sources other than the play store?

Yup. This isn't an anti-piracy thing, it's a fuck-over-people-who-don't-like-google thing.

John F. Kennedy?

DRM is to prevent piracy. This does not prevent piracy unless it only applies to apps that cost money.

That seems to be untrue.

The first time yeah, but I tried it again on another instance and it was better (at least it didn't fail to load half the time), but still super slow. The 2nd time is what I was talking about.

I saw this headline and was thinking, "Huh, I thought the limit was 8MB."

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.

exceot for the fact that it MASSIVELY inflates their stats for investors and advertisers.

Ah yes, the Reddit strategy.

I think that training models on scraped internet data should be legal if and only if those models' weights are required to be open-source. It'd be like slapping a copyleft license on the internet - you can do what you want with public data, but you have to give what you use it for back to the public.