Why is Mastodon struggling to survive?
  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearBA
    baatliwala
    1w ago 100%

    I have an account that I use to read, but I've never posted on Mastodon. Decided to tweet after seeing this post and I see a privacy option called "Quiet Public - Fewer Algorithmic Fanfares".

    Seriously, wtf is this? What does that even mean? If techie people like me can't figure out Mastodon then you can't expect the general public to do that. I'm not blaming this feature in particular, but Mastodon is quirky in all the wrong ways.

    9
  • New rule on Aggregators/Forwarders:
  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearBA
    baatliwala
    1w ago 90%

    Why does "World News" on lemmy.world give an ass about the American election season? Why was this not instituted during the elections which happened in India? We have like a billion people.

    9
  • Google Maps location sharing is almost ready to become a built-in Android feature
  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearBA
    baatliwala
    2w ago 100%

    Technically misleading but realistically the only population it'll affect are the Chinese who I believe don't have GMS. Non GMS users outside China probably aren't even a blip on their radar.

    Also, how would location sharing work without a server anyway? And I very much doubt that Google would open source the server side implementation coz that's how companies roll nowadays...

    1
  • Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam
  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearBA
    baatliwala
    3w ago 57%

    Sounds like you care about the nerds more than they care about him? No one even mentioned him in this thread so what are you wafflin on about?

    1
  • Google might let you sync your notifications between your Android devices
  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearBA
    baatliwala
    1mo ago 100%

    It might fix your issue though

    The feature may check whether you’ve dismissed a notification on your Android phone and then do the same on your Android tablet, or vice versa.

    4