It’s what struck me when I switched to Android… the play store is awful. Good on Apple, hopefully Google will follow suit.

As a proud member of the fuck cars community, I wish the US (and Canada) would invest in their national public transportation systems. It annoys me to no end when people go “but the country is soooo big it would cost so much money” meanwhile you have a functioning passenger train system running through the majority of Europe, fast train systems through most of China, Japan, South Korea…

The problem is that landowners aren’t willing to make space for rails, and unlike most countries, the railroad companies have no interest in passenger trains.

Invest in public transportation, get rid of 30 lanes highways and city centres, promote bike lanes and public transportation, tram busses, subways, LRT, anything. Make your cities more accessible. Ban cars, idk

I really love the updated one. Looks great on the iOS screenshot too.

I refuse to use my brain to remember things and thus Bitwarden it is

Just wondering - is there a reason it needs to compete with other apps in popularity or?

Would make sense. They probably rushed the launch with the whole Twitter drama going on

I don’t know about everyone else but my timeline (?) on Threads is all men posting their ass on main. Not sure how strong the guidelines are being enforced at this point, but I’m not complaining.

Have you tried using this instead?

https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy

Maybe I’m misunderstanding XMPP but does it not federate? Does it not mean that on top of trusting my home server I have to trust the choice other people made with theirs?

I think that’s where I’m icky about it. I don’t know that I trust other servers more than I trust Signal. Which, I mean, is not great to say given that in a perfect world I would rather not rely on one organization to keep my “data” private - but hey.

I don’t mind so much on Lemmy or Mastodon because I’m not looking for privacy but if encryption is the main selling point of something, a random XMPP instance doesn’t really inspire confidence at the moment. But hey maybe that’ll change in the future and XMPP will require less metadata to work.

How do I trust a random XMPP server more or as much as I trust Signal to protect my data? You’re telling me if the government comes knocking for metadata on some user on a small server that the owner isn’t going to just give it away? What about anyone else on other connected servers?

You’re asking me to trust someone who hasn’t shown that they’re actively working towards privacy goals vs a centralized solution from a company that’s shown they care about privacy?

Either way, you have to trust someone to take care of your data and I do not trust a small server owner more than an entity that’s proven they do not give information to governments. Gotta pick one of two evils, I guess.

Doesn’t XMPP collect hella metadata unlike Signal?

Meta doesn’t need threads.net to harvest data from ActivityPub instances. In fact, literally anyone can do it without much effort. You’re not protecting your data by being here. It’s as public as old phpbb forums used to be even more so. That bit is a non issue (well, it is an issue…)

My issue is just with the quality of content from meta owned instances and what it’ll bring to other federated instances.

Found its way here as well wee

Where do I sign up to be an actor

I’m so happy to have missed the poop party