Honestly, after WW2 and the horrors of it and the Holocaust, I’m mildly surprised that Germany wasn’t intentionally “collapsed” in a permanent way. Not just its division into zones but permanently dissolved as a geopolitical entity, with the allies flooding their respective zones with people to settle, work, and live in the region, and encouraging the German people to travel to their countries to dilute/absorb/assimilate the people and culture to the point that the actual land effectively became something between a territory and a colony of each ally (or even an outright annexation), with no moves toward creation of East and West Germany, nor any consideration of reunification.

I guess time has a way of healing wounds, but given the impact of the war and the acts of the nazi regime, I would have expected the allies, post-war to do everything in their power to prevent a German state from ever existing again.

Admittedly, I’m not as familiar with that time period as I am with the war itself, and such ideas are always easier said than done…but that’s always seemed like a more realistic course of events, to me, than what actually happened.

Heerily

Can’t tell if that typo was intentional or not…

This.

The app is where they can control the user the most while gathering maximum data.

So now they’re just going about the process of making the app the only way to access their site.

Absolutely!

I used Baconreader when I first joined Reddit, then switched to an iPhone and got Alienblue just weeks before it went away, switched to Apollo and loved it, but it’s iOS only, so when I switched back to Android I had to leave it. Wasn’t super impressed with Baconreader by then, so I tried out several others (RiF, Sync, etc.) and Sync was my favorite. Been using it for years.

I’d be absolutely delighted to have it for Lemmy.

Jury is still out for me whether I’ll stay here, but having Sync for Lemmy would go a long way!

The learning curve is definitely steeper here, which will be a barrier to a lot of the most casual users.

Once you find something you like there, how do you subscribe?

r/pens and r/fountainpens too!

Like you, I am not terribly active there but I enjoy lurking on both.