I didn’t know that was a controversial opinion? Do you think that Apple are as bad as Google or Meta in terms of privacy?

Apple does have privacy violations, but the things I’ve seen them get caught doing are minor compared to the things that many other companies do openly.

The main point of the article you’ve linked is that Apple put the equivalent of a “Do not track” option in a browser, and it did exactly the same of a “Do not track” option in a browser (nothing). Does that mean that any browser with a DNT request option is bad for privacy?

Adding an option that is somewhat misleading isn’t ideal, but it’s incomparable to something like Cambridge analytica incident, or the tracking that Google put basically everywhere on the Internet.

By the way, I am in no way defending Apple. I’m just saying that everything that Apple does, companies like Google and Meta also do, just ten times over.

I believe an iPhone is way better than a Pixel for privacy, even if both are far from ideal. I’d love to be proven wrong, tho.

See what? Posts from threads? Depends on your instance and how you browse.

Lemmy has no microblogging features so you won’t be seeing any (unless they’re specifically posting to Lemmy)

Kbin I’m not too sure since there are microblogging features but idk how they work.

Mastodon; you will see posts from threads users if you follow them, or if someone you follow boosts a post from them.
If you browse by the explore/posts tab, you might see some threads posts. Also from the ‘All’/federated tab.
You’ll be able to block threads for your account, or choose an instance that’s defederated.

I always used it when I had one.

Now, I use an adapter for headphone jack to USB-C. Every day.

I don’t agree at all here. If someone on threads has posts you like, you can follow them. If not, you won’t see any posts from threads on your feed.

Your feed will either be the same as before, or better than before.

What do you mean discovery feeds? Like the federated/all tab?

Because those feeds only show posts that the instance knows about, which is (mostly) posts from people that at least one person on your instance followed.

If you check the all tab on a small instance, it’s a lot quieter than it is on something like mastodon.social.

For F-Droid in specific, you’ll need an F-Droid client. I use Droid-ify (GitHub) (F-Droid) (IzzyOnDroid), but you can use whichever you prefer. F-Droid is a good source for open source apps.

If you’re sideloading from different sources, Obtanium (GitHub) (IzzyOnDroid) is useful to download apps, and keep them updated. You can even kinda use it as an F-Droid client.

Google is pretty lax on what it allows on Google play, so unless you’re trying to avoid using Google services or you want to install apps that aren’t on the play store, you don’t need to do it.

If you want adbocking and extra features in some apps (especially YouTube), check out ReVanced.

Google isn’t lying - there are risks to sideloading if you don’t know what you’re doing. Make sure what you’re downloading is coming from legitimate sources you trust. For example, if you look up ReVanced, some unofficial websites show up which may have malware. Triple check everything is coming from an official source.

I have fennec f - droid and can’t find how to download them easily. What fork are you using?

What method of producing meat that doesn’t emit greenhouse gases do you propose?

“Consumption doesn’t emit greenhouse gases, production does”, that doesn’t really make sense. If no one consumed meat one year, much less meat would be produced the next year, leading to less greenhouse gases.

Lemmy’s subscriber user count is usually wrong.

You only see the true number if the community is on your instance

Check the community from the original instance to see the actual number of subscribers

If you’re searching for instances, you should use https://lemmyverse.net/communities since it lets you quickly compare subscribers, shows you more results and also is just better overall

Sub.rehab stopped letting people add new communities. What’s up with that?

Why do you say it doesn’t feel the same between instances? The only problem I’ve seen is subscriber counts not federating.

Lemmy of all platforms is able to work fine without an algorithm. There needs to be some better sorting options, though. ‘Hot’ prioritizes new posts way too much, so you don’t even see posts that are 2 hours old.

Also some way of making posts from smaller communities show up higher since they’ll never get as many upvotes as posts from popular communities.

What happened now?

Easiest way to know for sure is probably to search for it on fedidb.org. Instances don’t need to tell you they’re on the fediverse, but most of them have a link to the source code which will probably mention activitypub somewhere.

Random sort? How do you do that?

On reddit? Vote % is fuzzed a little to prevent spambots or something.

On lemmy I haven’t noticed that

If anyone wants to leave Twitter, but there’s still people that you want to see, I recommend Squawker. You can’t interact or post, but you can follow people and you don’t need an account.

What do you mean by the built in search tool to find communities all over Fedi? From what I can tell the search bar only searches communities that are already federated with kbin, so you’d still need to use something like lemmyverse.net/communities for small communities anyways.

And also if you want to have access to a community that hasn’t been federated already, I think you need to use a different search bar. On Lemmy you can use the same for both.

For me Lemmy is better. The web UI is simpler and easier to understand for me, and I have no use for the microblogging features. And more importantly there are Lemmy apps but no kbin ones. I’m glad there are options for everyone, and hopefully they both get the features that they’re missing but the other has!

https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/110696020928017739

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/STATEMENT_23_3674

Sounds like we’ll see the effects in March next year. Fingers crossed.

https://ecosia.helpscoutdocs.com/article/33-how-does-ecosia-make-money

Ecosia only gets money from ads if you click on a link, so if you quickly scroll past them all the time you might as well leave uBO on.

They also said you shouldn’t just click on ads randomly, it won’t help.

They say

What if I never click on ads?

That’s fine, every additional user makes Ecosia more attractive to advertisers. The best way to support our mission is to use Ecosia like you would use any other search engine.

Don’t be concerned if you rarely click on ads, simply by being an Ecosia user you’re adding to the size of our user base and turning an everyday action into something positive. The more people collectively that use Ecosia means we have a wider reach and ultimately can plant more trees.