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@beeng@discuss.tchncs.de I wonder what proportion of the original code is still there. Not much I shouldn’t think. The original app didn’t ask for android permissions the way the modern one does, if only coz Android changed the way permissions work since then.

@robin@beehaw.org

@robin@beehaw.org

Whatssapp is designed as a surveillance app, it’s primary purpose is to collect data from your phone for Facebook to analyze, so they make it basically impossible to use unless it’s installed on your phone.

Seems unlikely they’ll deleted it. If they’re started deleting data that’s quite a change. They might save from bandwidth costs of delivering it to people I suppose.

Maybe something to do with users filling the AIs from the google cache? Google wanting to ensure only they can train from the google-cache.

@kubica@kbin.social @Powderhorn@beehaw.org @rho50@lemmy.nz

@Norgur@kbin.social hehe.

A stylus holder too, an extra battery of course, too to handle the extra load.

No phone has been better than the n900. But a case that had the keys and extra power and maybe a secondary status screen on the back, and didn’t look like a bananna themed children’s toy. Could be nice.

@ayla@beehaw.org @user224@lemmy.sdf.org

While it still says “twitter.com” in the SSL certificate, that’s still it’s name. It is still called Twitter.

Ah, I really wish Oculus had sold themselves to almost any other company on the planet :(

@honeyed_coffee For the reasons the OP mentioned. Familiar faces, being recognized in a community instead of being just today’s main character.

In a single large forum most participants are silent, as they must be or it’d be a cacophony. Many are silent out of worry that they need to say something good enough to impress a hundred thousand people, not just something interesting to their local 100 friends.

On Fediverse things escape their local instances and their local forum-groups by boosts mostly.

@Zigabyte

Yeah, I keep saying this to people when they worry about fragmentation. Like it’s important to have all the Baseball fans in the same Baseball forum under one big banner.

No, that’s not better, that’s worse. What you want is a thousand interconnected forums with 100 people each, not a forum with 100,000 people.

@Gaywallet Replying in your mega-thread. KBin here is tagging you when I do that and I didn’t delete it.

Haven’t used Lemmy much, perhaps that behaviour is different?

@CeruleanRuin their website says right there on the nag popup. This website is deliberately user hostile, to drive you all onto the app where you can be efficiently transported towards the rotating knives.

I mostly just didn’t look at Reddit much to avoid the trap.

@Gaywallet

@TheButtonJustSpins It’s like letting oligarchs monopolize the means of communication is a bad idea or something!? Who knew.

@Gaywallet

If 200,000 people would rather figure out how to make all their individual forum softwares work together in synchrony than put up with your bloody app, Reddit, maybe you have a pretty shitty app?

Dunno. I never installed it coz I never install any apps if I can help it, and I know how to use a web browser. But if a quarter of a million people would rather subject themselves to the complexities of distributed information networks and the politics of inter-instance blocking than use your bloody app, Reddit, maybe you have a pretty shitty app?

It’s like the kids today don’t know what a web address is with their obsession with apps. They seem to prefer to download an executable than read a text document. If even them, a million zoomer kids who are normally obsessed with apps, if even they would rather entertain the idea of a communications commons not owned and controlled by oligarchs than use your app, then maybe you should have just used yer IPO money to buy Apollo?

Dunno. I’ve never installed either. Sounds sketchy. I distrust apps.

@Gaywallet

@Spzi KBin wasn’t even a thing when Chat GPT’s training cut-off date happened.

Federation is having some difficulties currently, mostly due to things overloading or the solutions to the overloading. It’ll get better as there are more instances.

@meteorswarm

@agreenbhm Why it it worse to have multiple communities for the same topic spread across multiple instances vs having multiple communities for the same topic spread across multiple subreddits?

Seems like better redundancy and if they’re all in the same app speaking the same protocols then similar functionally.

Even if there was only one subreddit why would it be better to have one instead of a long tail of many?

@fediversenews @atomicpoet

@Nintendianajones64 Doubt it, seems like lots of people on Fedi playing Zelda at the moment.

@psylancer If you got 100 million users so that it’s costing 400 million dollars a year, then ideally you need one million servers with 100 users on each. They need to all pass around a hat between their 100 users to raise the 50 dollars in server costs a month.

@Acetamide Reddit has been pretty terrible for years, I’m excited rather than sad to see their demise.

@neblem Really? So you don’t need to actually do a follow like you would in the Microblogging apps to federate?

Interesting. Presumably it must do some kind of subscribe/follow in the background?

@NeonPayload @pumpkin @TeaHands @sanguinepar