The best way to browse on your Phone is on Firefox with its massive collection of extensions (that arent neutered to google’s liking).

Firefox’s not perfect or the fastest, but I can wait a few ms for it to be actually useful.

it is. I remember the dev talking about releasing their own fork of the webview that’s privacy oriented.

This was years ago. Hasn’t been released yet.

Reddit at this point a psyop for multiple different countries, political parties, celebrities, influenzars and such. US, Israel, China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and others have Internet task force to push propaganda and limit negative PR.

Votes aren’t public in reddit and is a great cover for hiding any coordinated influence. Keep creating new accounts, make it seem natural by posting on random subs, use old accounts for posts/comments and new accounts for votes. To an unsuspecting user, nothing seems out of ordinary.

On ActivityPub all votes are public and manipulation can be detected or analyzed now or in future. Instance admins could check this and see a pattern. And there are many many many instances, so any one might run into something.

Also mod logs are public in lemmy, unlike reddit. Censorship from mods and admins are already a constant cause for drama but makes it a lot more transparent for the community.

So it’s less influential. So, they try to dissuade people from making Lemmy and Mastodon less interesting.

I’m not saying it’s not possible here, but it’s too early and needs a lot more work than reddit. People already do not interact with users from instances they dislike. You already see some patterns in how users of instance behave and avoid them.

Should is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. The real test begins when the actual product is out. Very excited for the competition though.

Why work on features when you can overhaul the UI, and release it as major update every few years?

Gone are the days when major version upgrades meant performace and feature overhaul.

Now it’s just boring UI or AI bloat needing way more resources while doing nothing in the background.

They’re on youtube complaining how people should be understanding to everyone’s opinion when their opinions are hate, racism, and violence against minorities.

They never speak up when the little guy is being oppressed though, just when they feel their right wing audience feels attacked.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8155486/

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/10/11/355126926/frozen-poop-pills-fight-life-threatening-infections

Sloth simulator

“brings” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Thank you for your service!

because they’re rich and don’t want to alienate any portion of people that make them more rich? Also they aren’t even slightly inconvenienced by the changes in policy.

Artists reciprocating the feelings of the people is a thing of the past.

Didn’t this use to be an opt-in setting?

No. It’s the life blood of Google’s tracking ethos so it was always opt out on google’s phones. It’s so important to google that they’ll reset these permissions to “enabled” for all apps on system updates, so you won’t notice it until way later.

completely in line with “western values”. As long as you’re likeable to the “white” audience, you’re golden.

At the very least there’s less “you should be supporting my sides’ genocide and it’s your fault my country is ‘openly’ evil now. we were hiding it and profiting off of it so well” on lemmy.

Apparently, there’s a lot of people going around, anytime this comes up saying this is nothing new. There’s nothing new to the end users, who never cared. But this is going to make it hard for tinkerers to figure out shady shit Google is trying to pull.

GrapheneOS came out saying that they’ll not be affected because they’re planning to get OEM partners with access to internal branch. They’ve also mentioned they stopped reporting vulnerabilities to Google. Google doesn’t want being bothered with fixing vulnerabilities. So there’s that too

might be a concentrated PR attempt to downplay the change. idk

Cherry picking history is what US excels at. So, they’re always the good guys. Always…

There’ll probably be some footnotes about their heinous history just so they can point and say they’re not hiding anything. But the way they control almost all major social media companies and mainstream media. They get to play god with what sticks and what doesn’t.

Clickbait

With mental outlaw, it’s usually that or ragebait, to rile up his audience.

this guy is uploading 360p videos to peertube to make people prefer moving to his youtube channel instead. marketing, lol

First they came for the…

wait, what am I even talking about… most people in the US are probably cheering this on having allowed it continue to this level of stupidity.

So much for the cHeCkS aNd bAlAnCeS and aMeRiCaN vAlUeS