They could set up their own fully federated Lemmy instance and scrape themselves.

They don’t need a deal with Lemmy.

It’s an open platform, they can just scrape all the data.

The OG

Voyager

It’s a FOSS privacy respecting Lemmy client.

It’s available on Android and IOS

You can also try it as a PWA: https://vger.app

I think the iMessage push is a US only thing, mainly because almost everyone uses SMS/iMessage for texting, and if you don’t have an iPhone you’re stuck with the standard SMS features.

In other parts of the world they use WhatsApp, Telegram, or other multi platform messaging apps, so no one really cares about iMessage.

You burn lithium batteries through a turbine.

Ad free, but ist it also tracking free?

Before you know it, you’re spending 44 billion on a social media platform.