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.

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.

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.

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.