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@beeng@discuss.tchncs.de I wonder what proportion of the original code is still there. Not much I shouldn’t think. The original app didn’t ask for android permissions the way the modern one does, if only coz Android changed the way permissions work since then.

@robin@beehaw.org

@robin@beehaw.org

Whatssapp is designed as a surveillance app, it’s primary purpose is to collect data from your phone for Facebook to analyze, so they make it basically impossible to use unless it’s installed on your phone.

Seems unlikely they’ll deleted it. If they’re started deleting data that’s quite a change. They might save from bandwidth costs of delivering it to people I suppose.

Maybe something to do with users filling the AIs from the google cache? Google wanting to ensure only they can train from the google-cache.

@kubica@kbin.social @Powderhorn@beehaw.org @rho50@lemmy.nz

@Norgur@kbin.social hehe.

A stylus holder too, an extra battery of course, too to handle the extra load.

No phone has been better than the n900. But a case that had the keys and extra power and maybe a secondary status screen on the back, and didn’t look like a bananna themed children’s toy. Could be nice.

@ayla@beehaw.org @user224@lemmy.sdf.org

While it still says “twitter.com” in the SSL certificate, that’s still it’s name. It is still called Twitter.

Ah, I really wish Oculus had sold themselves to almost any other company on the planet :(

@XeryBlox The first thing I would pirate would be a hacked version of Firefox that had ad-blockers in it.

If I can’t get that then I’d think about abandoning the web for Gemini.

Probably the “company” that they thought you were shilling for is Kbin or Lemmy? Which aren’t companies of course, but an understandable mistake.

Presumably the people on Reddit will become more and more in favour of the admins, as everyone who isn’t leaves.

Soon all that is left will be the Spez Fan Club.

@honeyed_coffee For the reasons the OP mentioned. Familiar faces, being recognized in a community instead of being just today’s main character.

In a single large forum most participants are silent, as they must be or it’d be a cacophony. Many are silent out of worry that they need to say something good enough to impress a hundred thousand people, not just something interesting to their local 100 friends.

On Fediverse things escape their local instances and their local forum-groups by boosts mostly.

@Zigabyte

Yeah, I keep saying this to people when they worry about fragmentation. Like it’s important to have all the Baseball fans in the same Baseball forum under one big banner.

No, that’s not better, that’s worse. What you want is a thousand interconnected forums with 100 people each, not a forum with 100,000 people.