Or perhaps just read a book -> based

That is the case for every PWA from every browser afaik.

Both Firefox and Kiwi PWA seem go ignore your default browser selection

Hopefully Threads can tank all the lawsuits from Twitter, so that Mastodon can operate in peace lol.

I wonder tho, how much Threads has copied from Mastodon

Mastodon is a bubble. You have primarily highly educated, tech-literate nerds on that platform.

Obviously people are more civil and polite there, than some raging uneducated losers and trolls on facebook.

As the fediverse grows, the userbase will obviously lose this current isolated tech-wizard school vibe, and feel more like going into a random pub in a big city. Regardless if Meta joins the fediverse or not.

yeah, that’s going to be my phone of choice as well, after my Galaxy S9 dies.

When I used Facebook a few years ago, my feed was mostly memes, ads and personal posts from friends and family.

Maybe I never got the ragebait political stuff, because everyone in my friend circle wasn’t keen on being the sad guy that publicly yells at clouds on facebook.

Popular hashtags on Twitter and to some extend even on Mastodon, just makes you feel bad for the mental health of these perma-raging users tho.

Political spaces in general on every social platform are just magnets for misery.

“Ragefarming” and “algorithmically filtering for rage” just means sorting by thread activity. Mastodon already does this.

American drivers licenses are basically just EU style ID cards. For new licenses you even need biometric data. State IDs and the “Passport Card” are (somewhat obscure) alternatives.

Europeans only need to apply for ID cards at around the age, were the average American gets their driver’s license.

A young American adult is probably almost just as identifiable by their government, as a young European adult would be by theirs.

Seeing regulations like the REAL ID act, I would say that America is headed towards more identification, rather than less.

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.

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

They live in Japan, so the worst that could happen is them getting banned I reckon

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