They did a lot of good for the FOSS community for many years. Unfortunately, those days are long gone.

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That is one nice thing about F-Droid. They compile the binary like Linux distros do.

Broadband ISPs also had protected monopoly or duopoly status for a really long time. It’s been fucking hilarious watching the cable company freak out because T-Mobile 5G is a viable option in my area now.

Yeah, Reddit was famously open to third party developers for 15 years or so, and now they and their bootlickers are claiming they didn’t know that there were third party apps using the API to browse the whole site.

Even the Apollo dev said nothing but good things about Reddit because they were very transparent with him until they decided to paywall the API. Nobody saw this coming.

Seriously. We need to cut them some slack because nobody expected Reddit to go full Elon in May.

I’ve had better luck with the third-party apps lately. They also implement the features that are available on desktop that the official mobile app is missing.

By default, your instance will only know about communities on that instance and communities that users of that instance have intentionally subscribed to. Unfortunately, this causes problems for users of smaller instances unless the instance admins are running a federation helper bot, which basically scans remote instances for communities and adds them to the instance.

I found this out the hard way when I first tried Lemmy, since I picked a tiny instance due to the larger ones being overloaded in June. I had a hell of a time trying to subscribe to the communities for the new Lemmy apps I was trying out. I kept getting Community Not Found errors until I refreshed the page multiple times until it eventually found the community.

Some of us do enjoy hot weather. I hardly ever use my air conditioner.

What instance are you trying to sign up to? Have you tried making an account on desktop?

Yeah, I had accounts on both Squabblr and Discuit and left Squabblr when the rules changed. Jayclees, the owner, fired the entire admin team when they protested the rule changes.

I don’t know how Discuit will compare, but it’s mainly Squabblr refugees who think the fediverse is too confusing.

Squabblr decided to become a “Free Speech” platform and remove rules against LGBT hate speech, so they shot themselves in the foot. Almost everybody who was active on Squabblr moved to Discuit, but even Discuit has nowhere near the activity of Lemmy and kbin.

OK, but I didn’t say more people ended up there than here. I was just stating the main reason people chose them over Lemmy.

I didn’t say most people ended up on Squabblr or Discuit.

Sure, but to be fair, there weren’t really many general-purpose instances that were accepting sign-ups from anybody when the Reddit bullshit went down in June. That’s part of why lemmy.world got as big as it did.

Most people who ended up on Squabblr and Discuit instead went there because they didn’t have to write an essay to join or try to find a server that was accepting sign-ups and wasn’t down a lot.

It didn’t help that almost every other general purpose instance blocked sign-ups in June and early July either, or required an essay on the application. Lemmy.world was the only one that was even trying at all, and I will commend them for that.

Hopefully things will get better by the next time spez screws up. Because there will be a next time.

Hexbear, Exploding Heads, and Lemmygrad are cesspools.

No matter how you spin it, banning new nuclear is a win for fossil fuels because it takes away a major option.

New nuclear is banned in a lot of places due to people protesting it for decades. Which is crazy, because it is our best bet to get off fossil fuels in the short term.

This video has nothing to do with battery replacements.