What makes it open source is the fact that the parts which matter most are open source. The part that installs on the system is open source, and because of that it can be more easily tweaked and modified to accept other servers. In actuality it can be modified to do so right now, it's just that there is little reason to do so because the amount of people enthusiastic about snap isn't very large, as it has many other problems besides just the centralized server infra.

A study from irdeto? That seems like something totally reputable and not at all biased or with fudged information at all /s Yeah obviously not, this company is well known for lots of sleazy practices, as are a majority of DRM companies, it's how they sell their products. The upshot is it means it's very hard if not impossible to trust them when they create ""studies"".

You sound like most of the trolls I see on places like 4chan and kiwi who assume or make up awful shit about people to justify their behavior towards them. What's more important is that you don't have any proof OP is a bad-faith actor. You're fostering ill-will of someone based on an assumption. Oh wait you're going to say that you blieve that the "proof" is that other people do it so therefore OP did it? Yeah that's called circular logic, you are making an assumption about the OP and then coming to the conclusion based on that assumption. We've seen trolls do this all the time, it's a common tactic and it does indeed sometimes work on those who don't recognize the fallacy, or those who are afraid of standing up, two things that are absolutely not the case here in this community, people do recognize the fallacy, and people here aren't afraid to stand up against people who are fostering ill-will towards others without merit.

If Canonical folded Snap could be taken over by others who could build new server software for it, either from scratch or based off the other projects to develop alternative servers for it, and modify snap to accept multiple repos like that. That's the difference, also just being able to fork snap like that. Though the fact it hasn't been done says something about how many real snap enthusiasts there actually are.

These types of losers argue that anyone who was banned for any reason is a cheater, merely because they have a ban, and yes it's a logical fallacy to argue that, it's called circular logic. It's a common tactic among trolls, and bad-faith actors.

Look buddy, I know that using circular logic to try and presume and decide that someone is a cheater may fly on Steamcommunity, 4chan, and kiwifarms but it doesn't fly here on Lemmy, so while such an argument might get people to nod their heads on those places, it's not going to work out here.
The people here are technically savvy, and also privy to many of the deceptive and manipulative tactics used by people like you to foster ill will against other players who in reality didn't do anything wrong.

That's very true, her behavior is indeed quite harmful towards the community she claims to support and erodes the credibility of their movement. Even though the thing about crazy vegans is largely a stereotype and all vegans are not like that, she is perpetuating that stereotype by her own behavior.

Yeah being around tankies just isn't worth it, also it's not like you'll escape this kind of drama there anyway, they likely have drama this bad or worse there.

Good, it seems he's done much more for that community than Beaver, her alts, and you (assuming you're not also an alt) have done for it. Generally making toxic and antagonistic memes all day and attacking the instance moderation are not healthy and productive things for a community. It also doesn't help the movement at all, and actually can end up hurting it.

Also they made a post which was being openly hostile to Lemmy.world's mods, I mean what the fuck?

Yeah that mod was a real piece of work, it's probably for the best that one of the other mods removed her and her alts from the community, and also is in the process of reversing their malicious actions.

I remember a while back when this was new and someone in a video tried to use it as a coupon and they honored it. I can't find the link to the video though... 🙁

It's funny that she thinks she's accomplishing anything here but all that's happening is that she's eroding her own credibility, especially with those angry memes targeting people who aren't Vegans and her beef with the Lemmy.world admins.