I can kind of see an argument that you exchange your attention for services online, but ads forced on you IRL should be illegal. If ads are a form of payment, then unsolicited ads are theft.

They do if they’re at all active in their community. Lots of people complain about it. Despite being a premium app, they do seem to get things done more slowly than the FOSS stuff.

Voyager does that too, just not by default.

I just can’t fathom paying for an app that still has that super annoying comment bug that shows up in every large comments section, especially with all of the fully functional FOSS alternatives.

I use Weawow. Free, no ads, Aurora reports no trackers.

But capitalism is so much easier to game than, for example, market socialism.

Honestly, I don’t have as much of a problem with Lemmy content being used for training because the data is open. When the our data is being sold around by big corporations, that’s shitty, but if everyone can use the data (which you posted publicly) to train models or perform analyses, I think that’s a good thing.