It doesn’t have traffic data, which is probably the biggest disadvantage. The maps are user contributed, so the quality varies widely. Depending on where you are, it’ll be ridiculously detailed with individual bushes in a park, or it’s incorrect or outdated and you can’t find your destination. I usually use this or OSMand, but I still keep google maps on another profile as a backup.

I don’t have a good enough grasp on the topic to fully vouch for the site, but I’ve found pluralpedia.org really useful and interesting.

I think he’s literally talking about investing in fediverse companies, which I guess isn’t really any better.

At least in the case I remember it wasn’t a bot network. They would just put them on popular playlists so it’d end up with tons of listens. They were basically fake bands created as a way to get around paying licensing fees. If there’s no real band there’s no royalties to pay.

I haven’t used it but there’s ProxiTok.

For android I tend to like Safe Notes. It’s relatively simple, encrypted with either passphrase or biometrics, and stored locally, with a way to back up to a file. Just make sure you memorize/save the passphrase so you don’t lose your entries. It’s android only though, if that matters. I only use it for shorter stuff, so I’m not sure how well it works for longer entries.

I haven’t used Chameleon, but it seems to do some stuff like change the user agent that JShelter doesn’t do. I’d assume it’s more useful to get around a site designed for a specific browser or operating system.

JShelter isn’t mainly for spoofing, it’s about blocking a bunch of potentially harmful advanced javascript features, often used for tracking. Any spoofing is mostly to keep sites working with the missing javascript features.

I have it installed on one of my browsers. I wouldn’t recommend using it unless you’re willing to tweak the settings for new sites you visit, because I’ve had it break sites pretty often with the default settings.

That’s at a very different level. With dot social it’s about a quarter of the active users on the fediverse, whereas bluesky is probably something like 95% centralized in practice. It seems to keep improving, but right now it’s basically impossible to use without mostly interacting with bsky.

I started watching a playlist on how to design a puppet from scratch. I find puppets facinating but never looked into how they’re built.

It looks like there’s [email protected] that you could try.

There’s been people trying to push ⁂ as a way to represent the fediverse using a unicode symbol. I’m not sure it’s really taken off, but it’s an option.

If you go to the repository settings there’s an option to enable archived apps and outdated versions. Then select the f-droid archive repo for that app.

Often these are disabled for a reason, so you might want to check if there’s any important bug fixes since then.

It happens sometimes. Depending on the details, you can report them as spam, just remove the follow, or ignore it.

In some cases it could also be people that genuinely want to follow you. People often talk about one topic but still care about other stuff.

A lot of instances block it. You can check the moderated servers section on your instance about page to see if it’s blocked.

Meta does a terrible job moderating, so it can be a massive amount of extra work dealing with shitty people from there. They also have policy agreements to collect your data if you federate with them.

Usually comms is short for communications, but I think it’s fine in context.

They’re still considering starting them back up again after pride month.

The big one is W11 now requires a TPM chip, so tons of computers will stop getting updates soon, with no way to upgrade.

And they keep getting worse with a bunch of annoyances, like more ads, trying to force ai, making it harder to avoid a microsoft account, and getting rid of ways to customize the desktop layout.

F-Droid always compiles everything themselves, and runs a bunch of tests on it before releasing anything. It’s usually a few extra days for most apps.

It’s an interesting project, but NodeBB and Discourse have been working on adding activitypub support, so people who prefer bb style forums will probably use those. I don’t think they integrate that well with lemmy yet, but I think it’s being worked on.