come on, setting up your own DNS is not difficult at all. For my home network, it’s running in a Raspberry Pi, but before that I ran it locally on my desktop. There’s no way I’d spend 15$ a year to resolve internal addresses.

Sure, you have to be careful with the TLD you choose, but I believe that if the ICANN were to create the .lan TLD, it would be all over the internet first.

I think needing a VPN to access the internal network is a good practice. And if you’re going to be used a VPN anyway, I don’t see why you wouldn’t use a “fake” TLD like .lan for internal stuff, after all it’s just simple DNS rules.

bluesky depends on one single entity. they promised a lot about their protocol, but they have yet to show that other instances other than the official one can operate in a fully independent manner.

it’s probably some sort of Snapchat automatic alert detecting the words bomb or Taliban.

but if they have all that disabled, they probably have their ads disabled too, which means they are not making Brave any money. So they don’t care.

If we had a working alternative to Android as a whole, we would surely use it. But Linux on mobile works only in few devices and not flawlessly at all. But for the Chromium monopoly we have an actual alternative that works.

Interesting. I like the UI. I doubt the aesthetic people on Tumblr would like it but that’s not the point.

it’s always welcome to have more options in the fediverse.

How is federation working, BTW? I see you’ve commented from wafrn, are you able to follow Lemmy communities from there?

yeah, the most shady part of this is that SimpleApps’ code was available in Github. They could have just used that and upload it to the Play Store.

why did they buy it from the developer instead? because thousands of people already had these installed, so when buying it from the developer they get to push their new, ad infested versions to the unwary users had the apps installed.

This is a very dark pattern IMO.

Not even close. This has nothing to do with SimpleApps.

A crappy company bought them from the original creator and maintainer. This company is well known for buying mildly popular apps and inserting ads in them for monetisation.

People who downloaded them from F-Droid should be fine tho.

or you can just take a template, replace the placeholder text and images with your own and you’re done.

most websites don’t come up with their own design, even less scammers. it would be a waste of time

There are a bunch of good FOSS Lemmy clients, which I’d argue are as good as Sync or Boost (I can’t know for sure since I don’t use proprietary software, I judge by the screenshots).

Jerboa sucks, I’ll give you that. But both Voyager and Eternity are high quality clients that work amazingly well and are constantly updated. They have plenty of features and are very configurable.

Neither boost or Grayjay are FOSS. You’ve got it all wrong.

As always, use free software. Look for Lemmy clients in F-Droid. Voyager is a good one.

1 MB per day is more than enough to phone home.

The title seems like clickbait tho.

Meta could take over the fediverse pretty easily once they’ve been here for a while.

Nothing, they’re one cog in a pool of federated instances.

Yes, Threads will be technically just an instance of a federated network with thousands of instances. But Threads is so fucking big in comparison that most posts will come from there. And at that point, they can impose their algorithms and recommendations on us.

the malware has to be very advanced and specifically target your hypervisor version to escape a VM.

in the context of cracked software, it is highly improbable that you’ll find malware with this capabilities.

Both are based on the absurd concept of intellectual property. They are the same cancerous thing that is crippling technological and cultural advancement.

Edit: Seeing your comment history in the piracy community, I don’t understand why you bother commenting. It’s pretty clear that you’re a corpo buttlicker. I’m sure there are communities where youd be better received.

We have lost much having to wait for meds patents or other useful technologies.

And even in the entertainment industry we have probably lost so many masterpieces that could have been inspired by copyrighted material. Of course, that we will never know.

Firstly: commerzialization will come eventually anyways

And it’s going to make the fediverse way worse.

Secondly: what has all of that to do with democracy? I would hope that the Fediverse thrives to become a democratic place.

I’m not sure I understand your idea of democracy. Isn’t the fediverse “democratic” already? Everyone is free to federate and defederate with anyone.

Also, the Fediverse is currently still rather small. If it should benefit humanity as a whole, you will not be able to avoid corporations completely.

Corporations are not humans. They use us and see us as nothing more than numbers. They don’t give a shit about people or humanity as a whole.

I’ll make sure to block every corp I’m aware of. You’re still free to do otherwise, of course. Isn’t that democracy for you?

Wow, that’s great. Only the thing that our society is based on for last decades with a tradition of hundreds of years. Great, down the toilet with it! Hope you got some idea with what to replace it …

You have idealised liberalism. It only has brought crisis after crisis, provoked unnecessary wars, given birth to monstrous cynical corporations, etc.

I’m not saying democracy is broken, just liberalism and capitalism.

I don’t want to save the liberal democracy, thanks.

Actually, I’d say the fediverse nature is pretty much contrary to liberal values, at least in the state it exists right now with most instances being maintained by volunteers and donations, not corporations (let’s obviate Threads for the moment because there’s no full federation)

I’d say that Threads or the former Twitter allign far better with the values of liberalism, being for-profit private companies.