I have nothing against Canada itself but it being a US core ally means it's not safe for piracy.

Dbzero seemed good until they mentioned anarchism and anti-right-wing directives which means it's a leftist-first instance and that's a no-go even if I do support their cause.

Back in 2014 you just bought a spare and replaced it, nowadays they all want to play the same bullshit games Apple innovated on. It was was about time an authority that ruled over a market with significant purchasing power made a decision against it.

You paid $100 for a battery replacement!?!? My Galaxy S7's second battery cost us $12!

Wasn't it hosted in Finland? Or have things changed?

I enjoyed helping this place grow and doing my part to discuss here but I disagree with this decision and I'm going to evaluate looking for a different home instance.

30 years old or older
I'm 23

give it content and legitimacy and server capacity

by concentrating said content and legitimacy within their walled garden servers. Then they perform the rug pull and shut the gates closed, they have all the content and we have nothing.

Thank you so much! Let's make sure the XMPP situation never repeats ever again.

Sadly not too many options where I live.

Newer phones are harder to get custom ROMs on and most of them don't have them.

Not being bri'ish

Just kidding, I'm neither lol

Enshittification is fueled by normies NEVER LEARNING.

Only solution is an older phone with custom ROM

if you're on Android just use xManager

That yellow background is so unreadable 🍌

Nutjobs should just be ignored, as much as I dislike leftists Meta is an actual massive threat to Fedi.

There was a project called Yacy but it clearly never took off.

just like RSS feeds did not become mainstream while Reddit did, the current state of the fediverse will not gain mainstream popularity; however, it’ll serve as a stepping stone towards a new federated internet that’ll be seamless and intuitive for non-technically-inclined individuals and those who are indifferent to the implications for privacy and digital freedom.

97% of people will only jump from walled garden 1 to walled garden 2

97% chance of being EEE. Suddenly everyone will be coming to the Fediverse but not because they're interested but to talk to people on Threads. Then they're going to deviate from the AP spec slowly and become the de facto standard and so on. Or they're going to pull a Google Chat.