Natanael

~~Extremely expected for a company that used to be all on in NFTs~~

Yeah, but who would be able to prove it?

It was a small company, as he said elsewhere, negating your first 4 options, and the last two of blaming the user are equally stupid because Apple can fix this and doesn't want to. Not everybody has an MDM tool which can set up ownership right for Apple devices - and they should not have to

It's shameful that you have a bunch of upvotes and he's getting downvotes

You should finish reading the part where the company owned the device.

IT was the owner and obviously consented to their own actions.

You didn't read the post.

You pretty much MUST use paid mobile device management tools to set up and administer company owned Apple hardware, and those tools are notoriously annoying and often just bad

Android uses similar storage encryption (and you can activate encryption for an SD card if you have sensitive data on it), the encryption key is protected by a TPM or Secure Element chip or by ARM TrustZone or equivalent, it checks that the OS is unmodified before booting and the chip only gives the key to the CPU if the user enters the correct PIN

If you aren't using the iOS lockdown mode, it's not really that much more private. Most stuff is still not encrypted in iCloud without that on, and apps can still track much of what you do, and Apple has their own ad networks.

Edit: has any of the downvoters actually read Apple's (public!) security architecture documents?

People who can't pay experiencing their creative work doesn't take anything away from them. Complain about the lack of funding for art instead

Instance admins could easily patch it in for their local communities (just add a filter ignoring API actions like posting and voting for some users), but it's not official and probably won't ever be official behavior

I feel like recreating my account as a local one for this reason. I hate not having control over the filesystem and hate not having a normal looking username

They have silently switched stuff on by default before

Bluesky does strict content addressing with hashes plus post ID (unique per repository, this allows edits). So you can choose which version to refer to. If you need to archive or mirror stuff you can use the hash, and threads can have both methods so you can see which version of a comment somebody replied to, etc.