The only part that isn’t open source is their spam filter.

It’s not just aesthetics either. There’s some rough edges in the structure of the UI too.

Yep

Friendica needs some serious work on its ui. One reason lemmy works is because there’s lots of good third party apps.

Thermostatic voting

Wait bannon was posting in support of brown people?

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Dentist stuff being covered separately is more due to a historical division between MDs and dds that is unrelated to profit motive per se.

Monopoly doesn’t refer to literally a single seller. It’s used to refer to disproportionate market power.

What are you talking about?

My position is that I’m surprised by the rule of the law, as you can apparently both be a monopoly, and have (better) products in the same field, easily available, simply because people don’t care to learn alternatives

Why does this surprise you?

I would guess. I haven’t heard her doing anything other than call for ceasefire and an end to arms sale. But maybe I’m out of the loop.

Aoc doesn’t really build off dsa anymore to be fair. Dsa can’t even run it’s own budget right. They provided a little extra volunteer power for bernie campaign got a huge influx of people and have been in decline since he dropped out of running for Prez. Dsa is a dead end.

Greens are a waste of time though yes.

Aoc can’t run for president yet.

lolumad

Optics matter.

Y’all are why people hate the fediverse.

This is a case where it seems the elite consensus drove a change in culture whereas the gay marriage thing seems to have only happened once it became a norm across society.

What’s the context?

This argument is pointless. Neither of you is right. Arguing for or against optics is pointless.