“forces” how? This shit drives me absolutely nuts, I can never find my apps.

Some people view the Fediverse as any federated protocol.

Much like ActivityPub, it’s just a protocol, and it is whatever you make it.

You can but it is very clunky. Bonfire looks like they may have or will fix this in the future.

The Fediverse has plenty of problems but…this ain’t it.

A bigger problem would be the inevitable outcome of what happened with Instagram; people just post pictures of text to get more reach (and probably also to circumvent Mastodon’s stupid character limits).

It’s a stupid and arbitrary limitation, but I digress.

Yes, that is what I said.

Pixel tablet should be good through June of 2028.

Underpowered for what?

Get yourself a Pixel Tablet and put GOS on there. Only answer.

User profiles is an AOSP feature. It’s not exclusive to GOS.

Maybe but that is yet another problem that GOS won’t solve.

Time to go to GrapheneOS folks

I mean, it has been, for a long time, but this is not why. According to the article you can simply uninstall the app.

You can modify the code but there’s no “setting” in vanilla Mastodon. The request has been denied by Mr. Rochko himself, despite protests from the greater community.

Cool, let me know when they remove character limits and figure out how to apply language filters to hashtags.

No. I don’t have a Microsoft account.

Because some of us don’t want to be on the list when they come around and start rounding up firearms.

Never worked for me!

If you use SmartTube and are concerned about your exposure to this malware, you should factory reset any device that had the app installed

Fuuuuugg

I don’t have a Google account. I’m just going to delete and redownload 😮‍💨

Because PieFed actually added support for it

As they should, considering Meta would then have access to all that user data. They’re just fundamentally different systems.