Hey, can you please not be a jerk when responding to someone's work on HN? It's easy for a community like this to default into a toxic culture where people simply rip each other to shreds. It takes an effort to avoid that. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and be willing to make that effort, we'd appreciate it. There's nothing that you wrote here which couldn't be expressed as thoughtful feedback.

I know it happens that one encounters 99 annoyances in a row and then runs into #100 and the built-up frustration boils over. But it's important not to use a forum like this to discharge such a payload.

Most of that is boiler-plate from Termly, who we used to make a terms and conditions that were acceptable to Apple and Google. None of us are lawyers and those platforms have some level of requirements for acceptable terms. We wouldn't try to stop anyone from saying what they thought about Slyde, I will remove that clause, it goes against everything we stand for.

As for us being in the US, it's because that's where we live.

To speak to the centralized part, for me and my own use, that is something I want. I don't think that's what everyone wants but I do believe it's what the majority of people want. The problem is, the places that centralize that for us don't always do it with the best of ethics in mind. Maybe we can change that.