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Nobody that is smart trusts a company that provides services for free. If you are not paying you are the product and not the client.
Chrome extension that changes the sentence "If you are not paying you are the product and not the client" to white space.
Mastodon is growing on me. These big ol' VC driven social media giants are all overgrown and the cracks are showing. With mastodon, if one instance screws up, just go to another and still contact friends. I can even choose an instance with the economic and decision making model of my choosing, or run one myself and just engage with the federation on my own terms.
>just go to another and still contact friends the only problem is that you can only have friends of the type of people that use Mastodon
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> - Sometimes soft bricks my camera (need to restart in order to use my normal camera app) Skype manages to do that on Android as well recently (while it used to work fine before).
If userland software can soft brick the camera, the problem is not the userland software.
(iOS is not necessarily what I mean by “stability”. Not anymore at least.)
Is this SOP in sillicon valley?
> Snap employees complain about his dictatorial management style and penchant for secrecy. This is not too surprising to me. I remember how he actively worked towards preventing Snapchat from existing on the windows (phone/mobile) platform, purely due to Microsoft hate. This went as them going out of their way to targetedly fight third party windows phone apps until that indie dev gave up disappointed. That was prett…
Maybe it's just that my phone (Nexus 5X) is getting old, but Snapchat is probably the worst Android app I've ever used. Not sure how the iOS experience is. Let's go down the list: - HUGE (>300 MB) - Extremely Slow/Laggy UI - Battery Suck (mainly because it auto turns on location services, etc.) - Sometimes soft bricks my camera (need to restart in order to use my normal camera app) I only use it to stay in the loop o…
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Nobody that is smart trusts a company that provides services for free. If you are not paying you are the product and not the client.
Mastodon is growing on me. These big ol' VC driven social media giants are all overgrown and the cracks are showing. With mastodon, if one instance screws up, just go to another and still contact friends. I can even choose an instance with the economic and decision making model of my choosing, or run one myself and just engage with the federation on my own terms.
>just go to another and still contact friends the only problem is that you can only have friends of the type of people that use Mastodon
Mastodon is growing on me. These big ol' VC driven social media giants are all overgrown and the cracks are showing. With mastodon, if one instance screws up, just go to another and still contact friends. I can even choose an instance with the economic and decision making model of my choosing, or run one myself and just engage with the federation on my own terms.
>just go to another and still contact friends the only problem is that you can only have friends of the type of people that use Mastodon