It’s invite only now?

I wonder if it’s only happening on KDE? Either way, I’m sure it needs to be corrected.

That sucks and they need to fix it. Still out hasn’t happened here yet. Are you on Gnome desktop environment?

I never have to launch twice on flatpak.

And I only keep conversations for 2 to 4 weeks so starting over doesn’t bother me. Sorry if that doesn’t work for you too.

I love Signal and use it with my family which is the majority of my messaging. But I was surprised to find out the rest of my family on iPhone are missing features I have on Android. This doesn’t help bring the iPhone users.

The screen refresh rate makes this unusable. They need to keep a high refresh rate and just report whatever rate they want in the fingerprint protection

I just blocked it’s Internet access

I’m not a fan of Meta and I don’t want to join Threads. But there may be some people over there I would like to follow. At least on Mastodon, we can block any instance we choose to manually. I hate when instances make the decision for me.

Defederation should be a last resort when there are so many options here for people to tailor their own feeds.

I’m the only Android user in my family. We use Signal for messaging and video calls. Anything Google implements is not likely to be cross platform anyway.

A few years ago I felt the same way. I installed the Should I Answer? app and even limited calls to people in my contacts to get it under control.

I’m on a Pixel too. I’m in the USA and, at some point, Google got their act together on screening calls here. Most spam is rejected outright and the remaining ones get screened by the phone itself. I haven’t had spam call in a couple of years now! And I don’t have to use Should I Answer? anymore.

That doesn’t sound better, for an end user anyway.

It sounds like the advantages are really for the instance owners.

Thank you. I need to read this.

Thanks for the info, but serious question, why would I want to? Why is it better than Lemmy?

This is what confuses me. If they are following Lemmy instances anyway wouldn’t it just use a Lemmy client?

So the difference between PieFed and Lemmy mostly becomes interface? Or is it the server backend?

Forgetting politics, I liked Brave. But sometimes they do seem a little shady. I’m loving Librewolf even more, though there’s no Android version. It does sync with Firefox and Mull though.

Sync works great over here. It even syncs history which is great because I use an extension on the laptop to limit history to 28 days and that becomes synced with Android without an additional extension.

On mobile I only use New Pipe for videos. Admittedly, I don’t do much YouTube but I haven’t noticed any problems on my laptop.

It is my default. I use ublock and Dark Background Light Text extensions. And the reader view is better than any chromium phone browser.