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.

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.

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.

The gatekeepers of the website are like big babies towards “unbased food trends” like vegetarian or vegan stuff.

Basically anything that could not be found in a 18th century inn is unbased for them.

Otherwise a great idea for a site tho.

Doesn’t every American have a social security number? That’s basically a national ID, just without any security features tho.

Maybe you could try to convince through other features, like sending sharper images, videos, audio messages or video calling etc.

If you get closer with her friend circle (or if she gets closer to your friend circle), you could propose to make a group chat, where you can keep each other up to date or plan future activities together. Your wife will probably not want to miss out on that.

Don’t talk about encryption or security to normal people, who are not into tech. They do not care. Only talk about features, that they can actually use, and only in situations were this would be useful. Don’t be preachy about your messenger use, don’t make them feel stupid.

How did that happen? Have you all used Signal from the beginning or did you switch over from something else

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.

• Etar (Calendar App)
• Kiwi Browser
• Firefox
• E-Scooter Apps
• Sleep as Android
• Revanced, PurpleTV, Spotify, Soundcloud
• SD Maid
• Local Gym App
• Wallme
• FairEmail
• KDE Connect
• Five Prayers (FOSS Islamic App from Fdroid)
• AnkiDroid
• Habitica
• WhatsApp + Discord