My favorite joke from the finale

Don’t kill my app!

I absolutely loved it

See how the phone you’re considering scores on Don’t kill my app!

That was the funniest bit for me. I loved this episode.

Desktop: Debian testing (Linux)
Mobile: The Pixel flavor of Android

I’m simply more comfortable in Linux. It is a hacker’s OS. I feel like I have full control over it and it stays out of the way. I find GNOME pretty polished and cohesive. It has come a long way.

On a fateful day years and years ago I sat and deliberated between Android and iOS. I picked Android because it works much better with Linux. I have stuck with it ever since.

I love Java!

xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline

Delta Chat

Thank you! I was wondering why long presses were no longer working.

Let’s say I was on a giant Mastodon instance. And they defederated. At that point, would I be able to easily migrate to a smaller one? Or would I have to start up from scratch on the smaller instance?

How so? Folks who care about decentralization can use the menu, no? A common theme in the comments is that most users do not care about decentralization and don’t want to have to pick a server. All that scares them away to centralized platforms like Bluesky and Threads. Even a big centralized fediverse server is better than yet another walled garden they can’t easily migrate off of.

Techies who are comfortable with federation can use the menu, no? The vast, vast majority of people don’t and I do believe things should be as frictionless for them as possible. Even a big fediverse server is better than yet another walled garden they can’t easily migrate off of.

Boosting is retweeting. Favoriting is liking.

Initial log in in the apps should default to mastodon.social with other servers buried under a menu

Yes, that’s true. I am under the impression that “the algorithm” on the popular platforms mixes in posts from people you don’t follow. The only one I was somewhat familiar with was the Twitter one from when I was there.

To me, Mastodon’s biggest problem is its refusal to have an algorithm to surface popular content.

Isn’t Explore - Posts on the desktop web client exactly what you’re looking for? It was always there and it’s where I spend most of my Mastodon time.

Infinite growth is impossible on a planet with finite resources

It’s going to get worse

With all the context behind it I think the last scene of Star Trek: The Next Generation counts

Edit: Added link