If you message cross-platform from Android to iOS, and you can’t get everyone to agree upon a 3rd party app, then you’re kind of stuck with sms. This isn’t a problem that is going away in the near future. Apple relies on their locked messaging platform to influence their users into thinking iOS is the best. The users then pressure all of their friends to get iPhones too. It’s an effective strategy for them. Very few iPhone users seem to understand the games being played.

Ideally people just don’t buy cars that require subscriptions. That’s what happened with BMW’s terrible subscription model and BMW stopped doing that shit. The only way to make companies stop doing shitty things is to stop giving them money when they do those things.

I saw one that said “this is what life under Bernie Sanders would be like”. The person who posted it couldn’t compute that no, this is literally life under your beloved trumpy-poo. This is literally happening now, it’s not some hypothetical situation.

Not “thinks”, they are getting away with it.

World intended to allow them to be federated, ML publicly stated that they will defederate them. Given that signups to instances are being restricted, I wanted to be sure I’m on an instance that defederates them. I also like the overall sentiment of publicly giving the finger to Zuck

The main thing that worries me is still if the toxic culture of Meta’s social networks floods into our communities.

That’s exactly why I moved my account to lemmy.ml. lemmy.ml has defederated Threads.

I guess the infrared blocking is probably also to mess up the facial recognition systems.

I would definitely want something more than these glasses in that case, but that’s another possible use for them for sure.

Worth the price is subjective. Are you a wanted criminal, or planning a heist? Then probably yes. Otherwise, probably no.

That’s not how they work. They’re highly reflective, so they block analog cameras, and they’re infrared blocking, so they stop auto focus.

In the article it said Facebook has been sued and fined multiple times and continues the behavior.

Some of the behaviors in the article are illegal in the USA too, but the companies continue doing it, even after losing multiple court battles. It must be more profitable to break the law for them, which is a problem of its own.

Reddit Mass Delete browser bookmark still works, but it takes several hours.

Your best bet is WordPress. There are literally millions of different themes to choose from, and you don’t need to know anything about website development. Unless things have changed, you can spin one up for free with a few clicks of a button on WordPress.com.

WhatsApp is also owned by the Zuck. I’ll never install a Meta owned app unless I’m forced to.

Well that fucking sucks. We need a standard, especially since iOS and Android can’t use any nifty features when talking to each other. Idk why people are so resistant to downloading telegram or signal when they gladly gobbled zuck’s balls to get Facebook Messenger, which is like the 3rd worst app ever invented.