Cool. Is anything gonna happen? No? Then who cares. Just smoke and mirrors.

It will take way longer for them to shut down all individual servers than it takes them to ask 1 company to shut down all posts.

Not to mention the dissent that arrises from one server being asked to shut down, how many others would suddenly start hosting anti-turkey regime stuff.

Its like piracy: you can’t really shut it down. Even if Turkey would make accessing the fediverse illegal, people would still use VPNs.

Had me in the first half xD

It’s opt-in in the same way the Co-pilot that one day just appeared installed on your computer was opt-in. /s

Its not like there isn’t a backlash against Android either. There’s a reason why projects like GrapheneOS exist.

No worries, I also started test driving Linux a month ago in preparation for when Windows 10 stops being officially supported.

Same on lemmy… Yet, here we are? I’d call that a win.

I’d rather have a bunch of smaller dudes hosting servers than yet another US multinational that will use their money to destroy democracies around the world.

You’re right. The effort of writing 2 sentences to promote a platform some people may not have checked out in some time, if at all, was definitely wasted. I’ll remember that next time.

Its good to know this will be optional in Europe. But at this point, do I even care?

2025 will be the year that Linux will see an influx of users, and it will all be due to Microsoft’s anti-consumer practices.

Not sure if you were joking but Mastodon has substantially more users than Lemmy.

Averaging 1 million users/month versus Lemmy’s 50k.

Don’t replace X with Bluesky! Go to Mastodon and other Federalised platforms. That is the only way to escape corporate-sponsored fascism.

The internet is full of coomers and this community is no exception.

Everytime some news comes out that kids are being protected from accessing porn websites or social media (soft porn), this community goes into a frenzy. Like clockwork.

If all you do is browser the web, the learning curve is a solid 0. The issue is when you want to install specific programs.

It’s honestly probably for the best. Our devices should be tools for entertainment or helping with information. Not something that consumes our whole day.

I think this makes sense for people who type only in English. If you type in other languages, this becomes way less relevant.

Not to mention the limitations in hardware.

German spotted hehehe.

People like to get old bent out of shape and claim that it’s going to take everyone’s jobs and then they completely ignore things like Alpha Fold.

So, is AI gonna take everyone’s jobs or not?

On this same note, as an European it was insane for me to learn that school shootings like Sandy Hook, those are just the ones that go famous for some reason.

But in reality hundreds more happen throughout the year that don’t go “viral” so they don’t get reported at all.

Truly mind-boggling.

These must be the so called trans reading bed time stories turning kids gay i keep hearing so much about. /s

the recent changes only reduces the visibility of ongoing changes and the ability for developers outside of OEMs to contribute to Android (such contributions were already rare).

Why is this so underplayed as if it’s nearly meaningless though, is my question? A huge part of open source code is transparency, and this decision is a big blow to exactly that.

Only posting the code when it’s finished increases the risk that it will not be correctly scrutinized in the way its been until now, not to mention the precedent this sets. Death of the OS in AOSP by a thousand shallow cuts is what I see here.