schwim

BOMBSHELL FACT: I DON'T WATCH CLICKBAIT CONSPIRACY VIDEOS

You could make a sandwich in your lap and it wouldn't be as distracting as scrolling social media on your phone.

Beware of what? It's no different than any other instance and capable of being subscribed to, scrolled past or blocked.

Stop advertising for them and let them have their federated echo chamber, just like the communists, socialists, leftists and others have.

It's someone running a social media bot farm. Each one of those phones is being used to manipulate communities by posting content that's being sold as from a real human being.

It's a device that allows your township to record water usage remotely(that's why it's got an FCC id). Without it, the meter would either need to be on the outside of the house or you'd need to let the meter reader into your house monthly to record the usage.

6. No US Politics.

Please don’t post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online

Thanks for your thoughts, tuckerm. I didn't create it as an authority on the matter but rather as someone that has gotten very worried about how hard it is to get info that isn't blended in a corporate blender.

My most recent example was realizing over 3/4 of my regular forums are owned by verticalscope. The sweeping changes across all the sites were rubbing me the wrong way. Trying to find active forums that hadn't sold to them has proven next to impossible, however.

Which led to my curiosity; could we groupthink a useful database of sites and resources that hadn't yet been absorbed by one of these conglomerates?

I've started work on a sister site that I hope to use to make keeping track of solutions easier if my attention span permits.

Anyone have a comparable launcher that is still being developed?

So it's safe to carry on not using it?

Google has waited patiently for the moment at which they could start strangling their users without fear of ostracizing them and it's apparently arrived. Blocking ad blockers in YT, breaking sideloading apps in android, charging for storage after the forever-free model getting people to store everything with them, etc. I believe the average user feels moving would break too many elements of their daily life and will put up with anything Google does at this point.

I'm definitely not what any true privacy-seeking person would call a diehard but I have pushed back where I can, choosing to try to find a way to keep from being impacted by these changes. Firefox, Freetube, CoMaps, personal mail, etc but it takes a decision to give up a ton of convenience that I feel a lot of people aren't willing to make.

I'm waiting to see what the sideloading change brings before I decide where to go with my phone.

All private servers will see the same end if they become popular enough.

Regarding turtle specifically, although I knew it would never actually release, I loved the idea of unreal wow.

Piessants.