They’re still operating an ad based business model.
Not really all the interested.

By the cops or FBI maybe. The NSA is absolutely recording any and all phone calls that touch five eyes phone networks. That’s what Snowdon warned us all about.

https://www.myretrotvs.com/
Not exactly current, but as recent as 2009

It’s kind of a given that people are going to try to get patents for stupid things they obviously shouldn’t. It’s the whole job of the patent office to decline such requests. If people only ever applied for good and reasonable patents, then approval could be automatic. It’s not, only because they need to filter out the bad ones.

The real problem here is that the patent was granted. It seems dumb to apply for it. But how dumb is it, if applications like this actually get approved?

I hear that. I finally gave in and bought an electric spy-mobile.

Screw that!
Get a Fairphone with /e/OS before you switch to the rotten apple.

Why do we advocate for, and pour hours of development into, ActivityPub rather than building clients which add a social layer to existing content distribution and communication protocols?

If clients built their own social layer, those would be limited to users of that client. If they opened up the social layer with an interoperable protocol, now you just made ActivityPub again.

It does need one to sign up and make your account.
It no longer needs one to contact somebody. You can share a username instead of your phone number. That may be what you’re thinking of.

I think there’s a system level permission for that.
As I remember it, the pop up asking, appeared automatically the first time.

Been using Lawnchair. Not as good, but best I’ve found.

It’s an ad to upgrade, so I doubt it

Yyeess! 🤘

Right now, it looks like the only way users on my instance will get to see content from other instances is if I manually search for just about everything they’ll get to see.

They can do that themselves.

That catastrophizing, incoherent, word salad, is some truly impressive nonsense.

Any citations? I haven’t been paying attention to OnePlus specifically, but haven’t heard about any of this.

After 4 years and 42k users, they have a total of just 32 apps?

This is actually an improvement.
Better to give an error message, than to silently fail.

Only Sith deal in absolutes

You create business accounts.
Use them exclusively for business.
Use a separate browser to access those accounts.
Create a firewall as much as you can between the personal and professional online.

Business is inherently ethically dirty. Doing work for money is already an ethical step down. But in the environment you live in, it’s necessary to survive. So you do it. For you and your kid.

Agreed.
Until people started following hashtags. Then they were trying to be about more than just people, and doing it poorly. Kind of like wanting to subscribe to people on Lemmy. That’s not what it’s for, and just shouldn’t be an option, so people know that.