Mysteriarch ☀️

They also don’t use much energy. You can do a lot of reading on one charge.

I already quit many corporate social media platforms in the years before, switching to decentralized alternatives for some of them (Mastodon mainly), but was still active on Reddit somehow. Then during the Reddit blackout protest, it was as good a time as any to check out and switch to Lemmy. Its downsides for me are also part of the upside: there is no endless scrolling to be done.

Are you referring to the Digital Markets Act that would force some large tech players to allow interoperability?

I think it’s a great step forward, although I think it’s only in 2024 that those changes will actually happen.

Use any messaging app and choose to make it default. Make core messaging functionality interoperable. They lay out concrete examples like file transfer.

I’ve read some things like this. Is it correct that messaging services will need to interoperate? WhatsApp, Messenger, iMessage? Would love to be able to message people that I can’t easily reach now from Signal for instance.

Good, long overdue.

Is there anything on the accompanying Digital Markets Act and it’s effects? I can’t seem to find any comprehensive recent articles.