Side loading isn’t going away, just “anonymous” side loading. I suspect it will end up being a non-issue anyway, as simply registering as a developer through their portal so you can have your app be side loaded isn’t a big deal unless your app is doing something nefarious.

I’m not “defending” anything, let alone Google. All I’m doing is being realistic. The tiny minority of people this will affect have no alternative, and this change is likely to make very little actual change to those people anyway.

Nah, in fact I sleep better at night knowing those people are angry just knowing that I exist :)

Hilarious you calling anyone else fragile though haha. You’ve done nothing but show how you can’t stand people not agreeing with you, actively trying to tell others people proactively to block me. If that doesn’t scream fragile then I don’t know what does :)

Fragile people get upset and cry for censorship when they come up against people with different opinions. Strong people have no issue debating and conversing with people with differing opinions. You’re the former, I’m the latter.

The type of people crying over this are not moving to iPhones lol. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. Google know it, which is why they know they can do this with no issue.

I forgot governments don’t co-operate with foreign governments. GDPR certainly doesn’t have to be followed outside the EU, right?

By “a lot” you literally mean one when responding to someone trying to “gotcha” me yesterday hahaha.

Quick questions - do you think vaccines should be mandatory? What should the punishment be for not getting them? Which ones are mandatory?

What other things with your body does the government get control of? Should the government be able to mandate abortions if, say, you already have 1 child and they want to implement a 1 child only policy?

Thanks for letting me know this - I was reading about piefed and considering signing up to give it a go. Now that I know it’s an echo chamber ultra pro censorship thing I’ll avoid it like the plague it is :)

lol you think I care what a bunch of people championing censorship of dissenting views think?

And you’ve got evidence those laws aren’t being followed? No? There’s nothing that hosting it on a secure cloud server that makes that any easier to “mess up”.

You act like it’s only Mississippi, a single state, that is going to be pushing these same laws. You’re in for a rough awakening.

You might want to do some reading about things like GDPR :). You also need to do some reading on how governments cooperate with other foreign governments.

I don’t think you understand how much 99.99% of people are going to absolute shit their pants when they get governments ordering them to block content or be fined and sent to jail, especially when their country’s government will likely cooperate with the foreign government ala GDPR/DSAR.

Completely irrelevant.

You act like the government doesn’t absolutely love wasting money on stupid shit like this lol. It’s their bread and butter.

Also you’re overlooking, or are unaware of, things like GDPR and what other countries are doing in forcing foreign countries to apply their laws.

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I don’t think you do. In fact I know you don’t.

They could very easily contact the owners of the Lemmy.world instance, for example, and there goes the biggest part of Lemmy.

You act like that is hard for them to do. It’s not.

Do you think that laws don’t apply to instance owners? Why?

I don’t think you understand how laws work if you think the fediverse is immune to things like this.

What are they gonna do? Start fining the owners of the instances……

Decentralised doesn’t mean “no one in charge” - it means lots of people in charge of lots of parts. The fediverse would be the easiest social media network to bend to the governments will because it’s not billion dollar companies running it, and just the threat of fines or a lawsuit will make any instance owner shit their pants.

Sure, I agree - but that doesn’t change the fact that Wikipedia as anything other than a link aggregator is trash for anything remotely subjective.