Mastodon relies on users setting the language their post is in manually, so if someone posts in two languages and forgets to switch between them, they don’t get filtered out. I know there are some other pieces of software that switch it automatically, I’m fairly sure Calckey automatically recognized the language you were writing in.
it’s been better marketed, and people struggle with the concept of federation and picking a server. and I guess the invite-only, artificial exclusivity strat has actually paid off for them initially, unlike for Google+.
also, a matter of culture. I’ve seen many newcomers complain about how some long time users act as HOA, reminding everyone to act according to the long-standing rules. many people of colour have experience many forms of racist behaviour, too, which has driven some communities away.
oh, and the federation/defederation business sometimes gets way too messy, which [cynic mode on] makes it difficult for people who want their Personal Brand™ to gain as many followers as possible over the entire network.
it’s on by default in beta, off in stable.
if you use Android’s built-in setting to set up DNS instead of using an app that uses the VPN slot, you might have more success.
also, you might want toggling “block connections without VPN” off in system settings, I had to disable it when using KDE Connect with Mullvad.
an open source service gets bought/joins an AI company to develop a closed source version of the same service, while leaving the code ot the old clients open.
Its still open source
the code for the client they’re about to abandon is, that’s about it. the new service doesn’t share its source code.
hella wicked
did you type it out on a T9 keyboard?
tablets (especially ones that could be flashed with Linux, i.e. not iPads) are way less common than smartphones, so you get fewer devices to choose from for testing, fewer users who can run it, report bugs, and support the project, and less interest in general.
Which additional platforms are supported? Bitchute Rumble
ugh no I’m good thanks
BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization https://rys.io/en/167.html
so short
FUTO Keyboard isn’t open source.
usually the built-in phone app will have an option to block calls from unidentified callers, no app needed.
it’s the opposite, actually: she got harassed because she didn’t talk about it when talking about creating a bootable drive.
Dan has mentioned some time ago that he was thinking about making the videos delete themselves after some time, but I’m not sure if he ever followed up with that.
looks like they are, in general.
Kickoff’s category icons have been made symbolic and monochrome (where the active icon theme supports it), which conforms better to the HIG
https://pointieststick.com/2024/09/27/this-week-in-plasma-converging-6-2/
https://develop.kde.org/hig/icons/#symbolic-or-full-color-icons
again, if the person who is making the post doesn’t change the setting, it won’t get filtered. if they type a message in German but the post’s language option is set to English (which I think is the default on some major instances), it won’t get filtered out.
you can usually check what their post’s setting is by starting writing a reply to them, as the language option of your post will switch to the one they post in.