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Gestures aren’t very convenient if I’m watching videos in full screen mode or when typing on the keyboard. There are many problems with gesture nav in Android, let alone MIUI. It’s not worth keeping the default launcher for this.

The thing with this is that after shutting down Mixer, Microsoft started suggesting people to stream on Facebook Live instead. I’m still not sure how that partnership lead to the trademark of Mixer being given to Facebook Inc. at the time (I assume, before they became Meta).

The weird thing is that x.com sometimes loads into Twitter and sometimes doesn’t, which shows that there’s really no management in all of this.

both are up, but fmhy is down, maybe forever

The two things that matter when choosing a distro - package managers and desktop environment/window manager. And even then, universal package managers like Flatpak, Snap and AppImage can provide a substitute for the package managers.

The thing I want to know is - are they going to try and block any mention of Fedi or Lemmy on the canvas?

The latest update has been amazing. It now works really fast even when I have a lot of extensions turned on and working in the background.

I am not useng Brave much as of recently, except for maybe mobile because of UWP apps. Firefox has become really fast in recent versions, and even when I have 8 extensions on, it still opens pages in a breeze. And it is more customizable than most of the other browsers. I do however like DDG Browser’s minimalism and use of WebKit, so if I want a very minimal browser with barely any extras whatsoever that respects my privacy, I go to DDG Browser.

There is an inherent problem with microblogging sites. They don’t help you understand anything. All they do is give you small blips of information, text, memes, short videos, drawings, pictures. You can’t state your full opinion and it is hard to be noticed or seen because most people don’t bother getting into any topic in detail. On the other hand, social news plafrorms - like Lemmy and Kbin and even Reddit - encourage dialogue and discourage toxicity.

Microblogging has changed. Now, I much prefer talking about current events on a social news platform than on a microblogging platform. Right now microblogging sites are good for art or talking about general interests and things in your day-to-day life, maybe getting some news out of them (if the algorithm wants you to because algorithms suck when it comes to news, especially in a divided society such as this one), but not much more. Plus, the “balkanization” of microblogging with services like Tumblr, Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon makes it so that you divert attention to different things in different places, while things like the threadiverse can be a hub for pretty much everything because information doesn’t flow as fast as on microblogging sites so you don’t lose attention very quickly.

I understood the problems with attention span that plague Twitter long before the big switchover was even a thought, it’s just that I didn’t think of it too much back then.

Second that. Wefwef is the best PWA-type web app in the world in my opinion. It’s convenient, easy to learn, and it looks really nice and modern. Plus, it’s incredibly stable.

Is there a better option than Pinterest? Yandex Images? Really?

Twitter is surviving because of its addicts. Now, it’s likely to drop its userbase significantly. Plus, Musk restricting people who aren’t logged in from seeing anything makes the website practically irrelevant, and if this is sustained, Twitter will die in a span of months, if not weeks.

And the web app WefWef which replicates the Apollo experience pretty well and runs on any device: http://wefwef.app