It does. I will never use an instance without downvotes. Nobody liked it when youtube downvotes were hidden.

Thanks for only banning the communities and not the entire instance as a whole. That is a much healthier approach to deferation.

Does this mean we will see 512GB internal phone storage becoming mainstream for low end phones?

Not much to gain except more privacy and fully open source. A downside is there are less extensions available since it gets extensions from Open VSX Registry. Also there are extensions out there that are not good for privacy.

I still think VSCodium is worth it however.

Dont forget the fact most stores refuse to hire the staff needed to run the place smoothly. Why pay eight cashiers hourly wages when you can just have two cashiers?

Gitea and Forgejo are the way to go. Especially Forgejo which is working on federation just like Lemmy but for Forgejo repos and instances.

I refuse to use services that demand you use their app.

Services only need a website for the most part, not only is this easier for development cost but it is simplier to create a mobile friendly website instead of creating an Android app, iOS app and a desktop app.

I hate propietary apps that are just services or stores and especially when they refuse to have a website and make you download their app.

I do not need 200 apps on my phone. Just one web browser app will do.

If the roommate suggested an alternative messenger that was privacy minded like Matrix , then that is cool.

The roommate is a idiot or a dick for saying Signal sucks and suggests spyware instagram.

If you do not have instagram, do not get it. If you have instragram, delete it.

Tiktok is digitial media, the attention span is the issue, not the media format.

I know a few people who admitted to me without me even probing them that they cannot handle watching or listening to a video over 1 minute long.

I am not for censoring Tiktok, however I will never used it since its horrible on privacy and has "back doors" to a powerful and malicious government. And I like videos that are long with good discussion or information.

Just like Microsoft office users, stop buying office and just download LibreOffice.

Never use a closed source keyboard app. It can read what you send for messages, websites you go to, search engine queries.

Newpipe has been good for years.

Sites and services outside the UK should not comply. If UK ISPs block sites outside the UK for not complying, so be it.

Bummer, looks like a Google account feature and not an AOSP feature. Which means this will not be available for Degoogled devices.

We need a open standard fully open source alternative.

I think Apple marketing has a role in it. Their commercials and packaging gives the iPhone an elitist aura. Kinda like a calone, jewelry, fancy watches, fancy cars.

True, I was referring to low end phones.

Interesting way to look at it. I saw it as more reality TV bloat content.

Even if firefox complies, I am sure a fork will be made that will disable the in-browser censorship. That is the good thing about FOSS.