I didn’t even know about that, I thought everyone was affected and I had the Prime version as well, lol. I bought it at some point when it was on a sale - something like the equivalent of 0.something $

you also seem to have been way more on Android than me. My first phone was on Jelly Bean

When Nova Launcher got rogue I decided to dip my toes into some non-Launcher3-based launchers (Launcher3 is basically the default launcher). It is not the only one out there, mind you (Lucid is another one for example), but I found Kvaesitso to be the nicest, especially since it allows you to theme non-themed app icons in the launcher if you’re using the material you ones.

I went in the settings and changed the behavior to open the app drawer in a left swipe. To me it somehow feels more intuitive. Also, I don’t know what I did, but I am able to use the weather widget for my location without installing Breezy (I’m from Romania).

Looks like the vote passed, with only one country voting against it (I guess everybody knows which one). However, it will be up to the member states to implement it anyway.

it’s still a step in the right direction though 👍

Traducere: Știe să sclavagească mai bine

well, the most upvoted thing I saw here was a post of a dude wanting to keep his piss inside for 3 days straight. It’s a striking cultural difference I guess.

Scrap that. It’s literally just a can of fucking beans

Resharing this to my Friendica account. Just to know where do all these non-threadiverse upvotes are coming from. Cheers!

There was another one from back in the day when someone asked for advice on how to get along without taking a piss for 3 days straight. That got something like 1-2k upvotes if I remember correctly.

Guy is called Alex Craiu, and he is a Romanian war correspondent established in Zaporizhzhia since the start of the full invasion in 2022. He collaborates with the publication Veridica.

The guy he is responding to is Florin Mihai Gulbenkian a member of the AUR far-right party, whose leader is barred from entry from both Moldova and Ukraine due to national security reasons.

You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy

The thing I don’t especially like at this approach is that this is restricted to only pixelfed.social. Was Piefed doing the exact same thing? I remember Kbin and now Mbin allows for every instance to use their desired SSO.

You must be running Android 14 or newer which uses the Material You style. There, you have the option to customize the color of your apps based on your wallpaper. You can also use ColorBlendr to select any color you like, independent of your wallpaper colors. It needs either root or Shizuku. If you are rooted you can have a more granular control over the UI elements being themed. If you only use Shizuku, you are more limited. However Shizuku is easier to use.

You’re welcome! And sorry, I expected Friendica to be more known here on the Fediverse 😁

@julian fair 😁

Ordered it in the First batch. They said that the Android App Support is going to be subscription-free for this one, so that’s a plus I guess. Also, calls and texts will be the first for me to try. If they don’t work, then it will be a return.

edit 18.08: ok, so phone arrived a few days ago and calls work, so no return from me (at least now). But there are some odd things that I still need to see how to fix and some odd design decision. I cannot write a full in-depth review about this, but the idea is that - if you have access to a custom ROM for your phone try that instead. Do try this however if you’re curious to check another platform that’s not Android or iOS and it helps you get the job done in 2026. The phone itself is great, I haven’t encountered any lag whatsoever basically, but the system does have some friction and you will miss a bit of stuff even from ungoogled Android (i.e.: widgets). YMMV.

(not) nice 🙁

Rest In Peace! 🕯️

So that’s what authoritarianism looks like, kids

@julian wait, this is the first time I’m seeing a reply with a subject line, what the hell? 😀))

Guess this is the way Friendica can federate with NodeBB? anyway, the Fediverse never stops surprising me.

edit: and sorry for the offtopic

Fair. Friendica stayed well below the radar for pretty much the entire time, even though it sounded a bit familiar for me when I created this account a few years back, and it is also kinda the oldest platform in the Fediverse.

It has many of the features that regular Facebook has, like creation and attending to groups (even this Lemmy community is displayed as a group) as well as events and pages, but also some extra stuff non-privacy related like following RSS feeds directly, as well as supporting BB Code for formatting your text pretty much everywhere (in your posts, comments, in your profile descriptions or in the event descriptions). Not only it supports ActivityPub, but it also supports Diaspora and RSS (as said) and Tumblr and Bluesky (if you have an account there). Server admins can also install add-ons which add all sorts of extra functionality - from compatibility with other networks (with Tumblr, Bluesky or WordPress) to stuff like content filter or collapsing posts if they are not displayed in a language of your choosing (stuff that Facebook, again, doesn’t have).

And of course, it is not owned by Meta, nor it has the privacy invasive features of it, nor it does spy you across the web whether you have an account on it or not, nor does it pump billions into failed projects like the Metaverse only to later pull the plug, nor it invests into AI projects or spy glasses.

If you’re more curious about it, I wrote a handy guide myself here a while ago (I’m not involved into the development of it, but this was the best way I could contribute - and sorry for the Google site). There’s a server list here where you can pick your server (if you want a recommendation, pick friendica.world for the largest server, or loma.ml for a bigger selection of add-ons) and a video guide on both YouTube and [https://peertube.stream/w/p/4K4MWYXMEYUtVDqKjjq4Uu?playlistPosition=1]PeerTube](https://peertube.stream/w/p/4K4MWYXMEYUtVDqKjjq4Uu?playlistPosition=1) if you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed. And there’s a support group at !helpers

One of the other advantages Friendica has over Facebook: they’re not paying outright nazis to post on the platform.

Yeah, xmpp is a great protocol, but everyone needs to be in the vicinity of the server

I’m also thinking about the possibility of blocking/hijacking the network by the law enforcement forces. If every device is also a node connecting to each other, they can be more hardly taken down I think.

meshtastic

I’m not so familiar with meshtastic, but wouldn’t be more helpful to have something that actually runs on people’s phones instead of having a separate device? I mean, as you said, everyone has phones, and with something like the Ripple app (or any other panic button app) you could hide the app or clear its data (or you could do it manually). With meshtastic, in the event of a search, I think you would be more suspicious, I think.