That is the case for every PWA from every browser afaik.
Both Firefox and Kiwi PWA seem go ignore your default browser selection
That is the case for every PWA from every browser afaik.
Both Firefox and Kiwi PWA seem go ignore your default browser selection
I am pro-fediverse, so I guess making Mastodon atleast as easy to use as Threads is a must.
If you look at statistics, Mastodon always gains a massive amount of users, when Twitter does something stupid. Most of these also return back to Twitter, the moment they realize, that Mastodon has no VIPs.
If Threads integrates well with ActivityPub, then people on Mastodon will be more likely to stay, because Threads gives fediverse users access to the VIPs, that they used Twitter for in the first place. This stops people from leaving Mastodon in the short term.
In the long term Mastodon needs to advertise itself to younger people, because nowadays this is the only way for new social media platforms to establish themselves.
That’s how TikTok, SnapChat and Instagram became popular. This would make Mastodon fresh, while Twitter would transform into a graveyard like facebook.
Also having more tech companies, media orgs, cultural orgs, universities and maybe even governments host their instances, would make the federated aspect stronger and the whole fediverse more scalable.
Threads is a Twitter competitor. Same applies to Mastodon.
Twitter is only useful because companies, celebrities amd politicians embrace it. Nobody cares about ordinary Twitter users. Twitter is a platform for networking with people in the industry and announcing stuff to customers.
Mastodon right now is not an alternative to Twitter, because there is practically nobody important there.
Threads has better chances to overcome this and has already in a few hours pulled more VIPs onto their platform, than Mastodon in multiple years.
XMPP was extremely niche before Google and it is slightly less niche right now. It did not die.
You can not destroy the fediverse with EEE in my opinion.
I mean Tumblr also wants to join the fediverse. They are smaller than Twitter, but still large to have some amount of influence.
Meta gets all the data as well, even if all people defederate.
ActivityPub has it in the name. All your activities in the fediverse are public.
The article talks about private data saved on your phone like health data, contacts etc. Threads takes those, Mastodon app does not.
As the fediverse grows, there will inevitably be more centralized instances. Every big tech corp may want to start their own instance, similar to how most tech corps provide their own mail services.
There are millions of email service providers, but Gmail and Outlook are synonymous to email for a large amount of people.
Defederating with Meta and Tumblr is like Protonmail blocking every mail from Gmail. You just cripple yourself and make your instance useless.
Hardware-wise: Samsung Galaxy S series or Sony Xperia
Software-wise: Google Pixel >>>>> Fairphone > OnePlus
I use the Kiwi Browser for that. Open source browser with addon support. Is Chromium-based tho.
PWAs don’t work correctly in non-Chromium browsers. Firefox does not officially support them.
Doesn’t every American have a social security number? That’s basically a national ID, just without any security features tho.
Apparently there was/is a messaging service somewhere hidden in the core Fi service. I just copy pasted this list from someone else tho. No idea how accurate this is.
Believe it or not, I have not actually used all these services on the list lol
I don’t get it. Are Google employees completely ignoring all the negative press their messaging apps get?
Everyone online agrees, that all these messaging apps that Google keeps pumping, just hurt each other.
Here is a list of every messaging app that Google has ever produced:
Android SMS
Bump!
Cloud to Device Messaging
Chat (not the same as Google Chat)
Disco
Dodgeball
Firebase Cloud Messaging
Gizmo5
Gmail
GTalkService
Google+
Google+ Hangouts (not the same as Google Hangouts)
Google+ Messenger
Google.com/talk
Google Allo
Google Assistant (it really did once have its own text feature)
Google Assistant Messages (and then this but only in a family group)
Google Buzz
Google Chat
Google Cloud Messaging
Google Docs
Google Docs Editor Chat
Google Duo
Google Fi
Google Friend Connect
Google Groups
Google Hangouts
Google Hangouts Chat
Google Hangouts Meet
Google Helpouts
Google Huddle
Google Latitude
Google Maps Messages
Google Meet
Google Messenger SMS
Google Pay Messages
Google Phone Messaging
Google Photos Messages
Google Schemer
Google Spaces (this was basically Google's version of Instagram and it lasted less than a year)
Google Stadia Messages
Google Talk
Google Voice
Google Voice Legacy
Google Voice Third-party Apps
Google Voice for G Suite
Google Voice FXO VoIP Gateway (Obihai)
Google Wave
GrandCentral Communications
Jaiku
Jibe Mobile
Meebo
Messages
Orkut
Postini
Slide
Sparrow
YouTube Messages
OpenStreetMap. Google Maps is probably the best product in the field tho, even among paid solutions.
Redesigns are always perceived poorly. Every decrease in performance, every lost feature, every relocated setting is heavily felt by all the power-users. For new users tho, K9 probably became more viable/attractive.
Eventually people will get used to the design, performance issues will get fixed, new features will be (re)added and the rating will improve again.
Same thing happened with the Firefox Android Browser.
For me personally, K9’s design seemed very unintuitive and complicated, when I first tried it almost 10 years ago. FairEmail for me is a great compromise between usability and feature-richness.
K9 is probably completely different from a decade ago, but I guess I will wait until K9 has merged completely with Thunderbird, before I look into it again.
If you had to buy a new phone today, what would you pick? LG is sadly dead.
If you had to buy a new phone today, would you stick to Nokia or would you choose something else?
Would you choose a Moto G phone again, if you had to replace your phone today?
Federation with Meta will probably not have a huge effect on Lemmy. Threads has no communities after all.
It will probably be mostly a Mastodon thing.