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What made everyone move to Bluesky or Threads instead of Mastodon?
  • Networking effect

    Mastodon required people to join a server which made out to people who are used to signing up to a single website for the past 20 years or such, seam too complex.

    You also end up in a situation where social media managers have to reach engagement and impression targets and don't think which is best platform that will not be taken over Elon musk or Mark Zuckerberg style, but which will reach engagement targets the quickest.

  • Privacy-friendly whatsapp
  • Not possible

    However as you are in the EU, Facebook have to add 3rd party support to whatsapp. So that people on whatsapp can still message users who are not on whatsapp. Later in the future, group support will be added.

    No time frame of when it goes live.

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/6/24063705/whatsapp-interoperability-plans-eu-dma/

  • Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone
  • What's stopping someone from enabling debug mode, downloading adb tools and running pm uninstall --user0 then the package name? Surely with the app removed, the app can't brick your phone. Or running a custom rom like lineage or graphine os?

  • Micro***t Word on Linux and alternatives
  • I did a look into this. softmaker is best when it comes to compatibility of displaying files. Wps office is ok, but some text would be on top of others. I did find that there is a free version of softmaker, which should be ok.

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