What's wrong with flatpaks?
Remote work means a lot of well paid individuals are able to move to less expensive areas, assuming internet is decent.
Federated communications Canada (FCC)
Aurora is a full replacement for the play store. I've been using fdroid as my only source for apps for years now. It has everything I need.
Liftoff is also very frequently updated. Any complaint I've had has been addressed 2-3 patches after posting about it. They work fast, and they do good work. Big +1 for liftoff.
Even the fires know better than to get near Winnipeg.
The reason is privacy, everybody has a reason to use it.
Lemmy.ca is the best. Large local instance, great uptime, good admins.
And we have a handful of large communities.
His code contributions have always been high quality, and they're audited by his peers. Its very unlikely malicious code would come from him, and even more unlikely it would make it through on to your phone.
While he's certainly unhinged, it's clear that he cares deeply for the project. I can't see him doing anything intentionally malicious.
I really wish him the best, and I'm glad he stepped down. Much better for optics with him out of the way.
As Lemmy grows reddit will shrink. Reddit might always be around, but that's the same crowd that uses Facebook. Stragglers be damned, many users found a new home and that's a big win in my books. The rest were shown how shitty and incompetent the management is at Reddit, and it'll only get worse until they lose more and more users.
And when Lemmy becomes compatible with the wider activitypub network, we'll gain another 9M users. (Its also closer to 200k now I believe.)
Short filter on a joint is easier to hold with fingertips, whereas big filter on a cigarette can be held easily with fingers.