But the developer doesn’t need to provide support if you opt to use your own data storage and the storage itself fails. Google would be the one to contact if Google drive has an issue.

Well yes, but that’s not how your average user thinks and acts. They will either a) contact you as the developer of the app that doesn’t seem to work and when your say it’s not your fault give you bad reviews or b) directly give you bad reviews.

You either don’t know what binary search is or you completely missed the context of this conversation

The only thing she’s mad about is that he wants to code in brainfuck

Yes because this isn’t a reddit phenomenon but a human psychology phenomenon

It always baffles me that apparently in some places people still use sms. I mean besides the fact that it isn’t encrypted at all, sms doesn’t even give you group chats, the ability to send images and videos or many other of features basically every other messenger has, right? Where I live it’s about (just guessing the numbers here tbh) 90 % WhatsApp, 7% telegram and 3 % signal. Is there any reason that in some places so many people stay with SMS? I don’t think I’ve send or received one in the last 10 years or so (besides companies sending me a TAN or whatever)

I also think, we’ll have ads at some point - and that’s perfectly fine and understandable as long as these ads aren’t too many and aren’t too intrusive. My hope is that because of lemmy’s federated nature a healthy competition will emerge. So whenever an instance starts overloading the users with ads, users will just move to another instance with less adds at the blink of an eye.