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.
yeah, that’s going to be my phone of choice as well, after my Galaxy S9 dies.
American drivers licenses are basically just EU style ID cards. For new licenses you even need biometric data. State IDs and the “Passport Card” are (somewhat obscure) alternatives.
Europeans only need to apply for ID cards at around the age, were the average American gets their driver’s license.
A young American adult is probably almost just as identifiable by their government, as a young European adult would be by theirs.
Seeing regulations like the REAL ID act, I would say that America is headed towards more identification, rather than less.
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.
How did that happen? Have you all used Signal from the beginning or did you switch over from something else
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.
Tbh pirating closed source software is as easy, as installing forked code. Maybe you could add a non-competition clause to a new open source license, so that the original FOSS software company has the legal high ground over anyone that undersells them.
Thankfully Snapchat has become uncool in my generation again
Shift phone seems like an interesting Fairphone alternative, but availability in the US seems tough. Hopefully the new EU law on replaceable batteries will make improve the situation worldwide.
If you had to buy a new phone today, what would you pick? LG is sadly dead.
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.