Epic, makers of the wildly popular Fortnite video-game, have waged a one-company war against the "app tax" - the 15-30% rake that the mobile duopoly of Apple/Google take out of every penny we spend inside of apps.

[pluralistic@mamot.fr]

Epic, makers of the wildly popular Fortnite video-game, have waged a one-company war against the "app tax" - the 15-30% rake that the mobile duopoly of Apple/Google take out of every penny we spend inside of apps.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/01/its-not-the-crime/#its-the-coverup

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[cptsuperlative@toot.cat]

@pluralistic

I am deeply grateful for the public servants who have championed this cause, but I also know that these people are the effect of our movement, not the cause.

This! This! This!

I cannot stand people who smugly "wait on the world to change." The world only changes in the ways we want it to when we get off our collective asses and force it to do so.

Also, I can't help but anticipate some as yet unknown Trump regime meddling with these rulings.

[peaoperdido@datasci.social]

@FediTips

Sorry for something entirely unrelated to the post. But how do you make those purple text?

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@peaoPerdido

They are on a server that has been customised to allow text formatting. More info about this at https://fedi.tips/is-mastodon-compatible-with-rich-text-formatting-such-as-markdown/