always that there’s a no technology post in c/technology it is this bot who post it.

I meant on Mastodon, where it is that simple. After all, it makes more sense since they are both microblogging.

In Lemmy it’s a bit of a hassle, but the devs were working on it.

anti-meta activism is not a bad thing at all. The billionaire corps have their marketing teams, individuals and communities have their activism. Everyone can listen to both and take an informed decision.

They are just that, activists, informing everyone about a possible issue. There’s nothing wrong with that. They are not enforcing anything on anyone.

The worst that can happen is that if your instance admin decides to ban Threads and you want to federate with Threads, you’ll have to switch instances. Not a big deal. You’ll still be able to interact with the Fediverse, it’s not like you were in Twitter, you had to leave and now you’ve lost all your contacts there.

the same can be argued about the fediverse. the approximate number is 1.5 million of monthly active users, which is just an ant compared to Meta’s.

So yeah, one could argue that it’s pretty much the same situation in terms of numbers if not worse (I don’t know the numbers but I’d bet that Meta has more users than Google talk ever had)

I’d argue the system is working quite well, every individual and/or community has the liberty to choose what to do about Meta.

That’s what federation is all about, no central power taking decisions in behalf of everyone else.

just a few days ago they enabled some limited one-way ActivityPub support.

It’s, of course, far from the whole thing, but they’re rolling it out slowly for testing purposes ig.

the bot is a mod itself, so yeah.

it’s been posting low quality content for months now

I only use wired headphones.The annoyance of batteries, the higher prices and the much shorter lifespan makes wireless a no go for me.

You can buy some nice wired headphones and expect them to last 15+ years if taken good care of. Good luck trying to keep wireless ones for more than 5 years with a good battery life.

that’s a totally fair claim. This time it’s “okay” because the far right is being banned. But we shouldn’t let that distract us from the fact that two private mega corporations can censor any social media or journal they want.

(they would only be banning the app and not the actual website, but so many tech illiterate people can’t tell the difference)

I’m also worried that due to content moderation policies, Threads might choose to federate only with a few handpicked mastodon instances. Thus provoking a huge increase of users in these instances because they want to interact with people on threads and causing a centralisation issue, because people will start joining this instances far more than the others.

It would also render useless self hosting a single user instance for yourself.

If mastodon federates poorly with Lemmy, I can only imagine that threads will federate even worse with Lemmy.

That’s assuming that Threads (meta) starts federating with all the fediverse, which is a big assumption.

My own opinion, based on nothing, is that they will federate with a few handpicked mastodon instances and block everything else. Mainly due to content moderation.

F-Droid has reproducible builds, so definitely yes. You can even check the exact code used to build every app on F-Droid.

The rest of stores, it depends. Every store has their own policy and the only one I recommend is using F-Droid or downloading directly from the devs’ website or Github repo. There’s an app to automate this process for updates too, so it’s actually a quite good method.

You need a Google account just for the Play Store, given that it’s a Google product.

You can download apps from other stores just fine: install F-Droid for example, or Amazon which has their own app repository too, and you’ll be able to download and install apps from there. (I don’t recommend using Amazon, it’s just an example)

For apps on the Play Store, you can use Aurora Store which proxies the Google Store and does not require a Google account.

stop consuming Apple marketing.

For starters, you can degoogle Android, you can’t deapple iOS.

You can replace the manufacturer android with a clean, free software and secure Android ROM, like GrapheneOS. iOS is a black box, fully proprietary and controlled by Apple.

You can install apps from third parties on Android, like F-Droid. On iOS every app must be approved by Apple.

You can’t use an iPhone without an Apple account, you can use Android without a Google account.

Android has multiple profiles support, which comes handy for completely isolating apps from the rest of your phone.

There’s much, much more. That’s just what came to my mind right now.

The no jack part is absolutely true and a disappointment. But you have to give credit to it’s reparability. I know it has a lot of limitations, you can’t swap the CPU if needed, but it’s much better than any other phone.

I despise Google, and I agree with chromium, but when the only other alternative is using the proprietary walled garden that is iOS, I’ll take degoogled Android everyday.

isn’t developing light speed spacecrafts a far more direct concern?

why even concern about communications when travelling such distances isn’t even possible.

I don’t see the point of the article.

you’re right, RCS sucks. But just like WhatsApp or iMessage suck.

what makes you think that Apple is any better than Meta? their “privacy” marketing? I wouldn’t believe a single word of it.

Both iMessage and WhatsApp are trash. At least WhatsApp is cross platform.