It wouldn’t be a free software licence by the FSF definition (rule zero). Of interest the FSF rejects the original JSON licence because it contains the clause “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.” Since Mastodon uses AGPL, it wouldn’t be compatible.
That’s a really misleading headline; a Mastodon instance has done this, Mastodon as a whole can’t do this because it’s free software, it can be used for any purpose.
No data I’m afraid but it just doesn’t ring true to me, unless there are vast regional differences. It sticks out to me as much as if you’d said that Bing is the largest search engine; I’ve barely heard of Apple email but almost everyone I know uses Gmail except me, including Apple users I know.
Are you saying Apple is a larger email provider than Google? I’d find that very surprising.
Most of those things are kind of a matter of taste though aren’t they? If you change those kinds of things you’ll get other people complaining who like it as it is now. For example for me I think the default UI is excellent and the alternative ones I’ve tried are mostly terrible, but I know not everyone thinks the same way.
Other complaints are instance-specific but that’s a good thing; instances can operate how they like because we have a choice, that’s the whole benefit to Lemmy and federation.
OK but that’s still no explanation. I want to understand the problem deeper than “it’s bad”.
I’m not getting what the UX problems are, and if you change things aren’t there just going to be new problems with the changes? I think the default experience is a lot better than Reddit at least.
It just means that the decision comes down to the instance owner not the software developer, which I think is right. Everyone should be able to decide what their computer does, that’s important to hold on to.