I only dislike it in a “death by 1000 cuts” type of way where iOS already has a long list of things that make development more annoying.

I watch YouTube way too much to ever be satisfied by any form of subscription feed. On places like Twitter all I want is the feed of people I follow, but not so much on video platforms.

If we lived in a sane country all 4 major tech companies would have already been brought to court over this in like, 2016. (Microsoft for the second time…)

It’s also nice to zap annoying parts of pages like proton mail begging for money and Twitter’s more annoying buttons. However, I still find adguard to work worse than ublock.

I like it, but I’m mad they backed out of the redesign a few years ago, and I hate that it doesn’t support true ad blockers. The modern web is near unusable with the current ad count.

Your phone is a portal into a large part of the world. It’s not that odd that the average person would prefer a larger window.

I have no use for the ringer switch and would prefer for ringer to just turn on when I’m at home and off when outside, so I really hope it works out this way.

Yes, it also takes several days to recalculate all your photos so be prepared for that.

It’s kind of annoying that a lot of features are locked behind a Mac, but I guess most of the features that require a Mac google photos lacks entirely…

Considering all the comments I’ve seen about their phone basically falling apart it kind of sounds like you should just get an iPhone SE and factor in a battery replacement after 3 years. Day one updates for 5 years and I am severely doubtful you’ll have as many hardware problems if you don’t damage it. Better camera, too.

Security updates are easier than full OS upgrades.

Have they actually done this, or did they just say that they will? It won’t be easy…

Doesn’t Qualcomm stop providing drivers after 4 years?

If you had gotten a high quality phone from another manufacturer it is unlikely you would have had this many hardware problems requiring a replacement. This seems like a toss up.

Now let’s see if they actually follow through. I’m skeptical.

Luckily EVs are now superior products for the average person. The only remaining issue is price.

Stuff like this is why I went to Mac in 2020 and I only begrudgingly look back the few times a year I absolutely need something windows exclusive. They really have a lovely way with software and UI that Microsoft does not.

How is that functionally different than just having the entire thing be centralized, though? At that point the decentralization is just a footnote that makes the website more confusing. The main instance could be sold off one day and walled off from the other instances and nobody would be able to do anything about it.

It seems like your use could be covered by a revived RSS reader-like system, because you want more of a news ticker than social media. That’s fine, but that’s not how a lot of people use Twitter.

On Reddit you post underneath a community. The decentralized abstraction only slightly complicates this. Reddit is just a centralized version of old forums, where you had an account for all your niche interests. Lemmy is the middle ground between those old forums and a central account because you can access all the content from any fediverse account.

On Twitter, you post detached from any community, the only way to be a part of one is purely based on social groups. The average person doesn’t want to have community instances even if they can talk across multiple, they want a social media that can represent themselves and all of their interests on one account. And if you say the solution is for everyone to just join the biggest instance, how is that really any different from a centralized social media anyway? It’s just over complicated for what Twitter is.

Bluesky and Threads will crush Mastodon. And unfortunately, between those two, probably Threads will beat Bluesky.