I do not understand why would a developer (or development team) change the licensing terms of their software for something stricter, like Redis did. Could someone tell me what the factors are?

If you don’t pay for WinRAR, the only thing it will do is show up notices to buy it. This is intentional, meant to prevent piracy. So it’s more like a donation rather than a purchase.

It’s good to learn about some cultural differences, for both me and you. In Poland, Santa is believed to bring the naughty kids bundles of rods (as in, leafless twigs). We call that “rózga”, even though the same word can just refer to a single rod as well.

Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of trucks in my country have a “dead angles” sticker that shows something similar.

This just goes to show you that Google will do anything for money.

The API pricing was imposed to crack down on free training of LLMs with user data.

There were also other API changes like totally removing access to content marked as mature. I don’t know if subreddits can disable setting a post as mature because automods can’t detect it or see its content.

Pokémon FireRed

Unfortunately, only Europe. Because manufacturers still want to capitalize on those “not easily removable” batteries in the rest of the world.

Terrible idea. If someone likes your instance so much, they’d probably be happy to pitch in and donate.

Want money for hosting, but you’re not receiving enough donations? Just get a job! It’s not like you only stay at home to watch your Lemmy.

Ads will never, EVER become a built-in feature of the Lemmy software. Try implementing it yourself, even though Rust is not an easy programming language to master.

This stems from how other instance admins reported issues with scalability of Lemmy’s multimedia storage, and the fact it can inflate cloud costs very much.

I was actually hesitant at first, because I didn’t know of a good alternative. Then, there’s Lemmy that I’ve heard of. Since lemmy.world has been compromised, I chose this server. I still haven’t escaped Reddit fully. However, the fact the board at Reddit Inc. accepted and implemented the new API pricing made my decision to come to Lemmy quicker.

I’m pretty sure that, under the hood, they become evil towards their users and don’t change from that. And will never reconsider rescinding the things we’re grateful to not have in the fediverse: profits fueled by advertising rather than donations, tracking sensitive information (including that one can and will use against you), selling that information, and obscure, closed algorithms.

But what you said may be right. Those goddamn C&D orders backed by powerful lawyers…

Same here! Though my Reddit escape is going to be slow, it’s sure.