Lol I was just about to post this. Yeah this is a decision for sure. Wouldn’t be surprised if this causes another big spike in Lemmy usage

Yeah I’m kind of puzzled by it too lol. I wish they had just kept their original solution of using Macs to run iMessage. Perhaps if they had gotten popular it still would have been blocked, but their whole strategy of being super open about it is odd. I suppose they thought they could fight it but evidently that wasn’t the case.

Overall though I agree with the post, the app is really nice, the new android version is super slick and if they can get all the other connections working locally like they want, it’ll be even better

Am I wrong or is this article 3 years old?

I feel the same way. I end up being in 30 or so different Pokemon ROM hack servers just to get the patch files for the games. Very frustrating to have to do that when there are websites dedicated to hosting these files

Unfortunately seems like this won’t help that, if they expect you to be on the server to get the files. The article says the links will be auto refreshed daily, so it’s only the links shared outside the server that won’t work after a day :(

I mean, the EEOC is literally suing them. Not sure what part you don’t believe. If you don’t believe that stuff actually happened there, did you read to the end of the article? It’s not the first time they’ve been accused of this

I see what you’re saying. I do agree that people should have the opportunity to be educated to at least a baseline understanding of some things. If for nothing else but to avoid being scammed.

I mean ideally I would just like these companies to be held responsible for doing shady stuff behind the scenes, I don’t think having easy to understand UIs (and as a result, a bit obfuscated from what’s actually happening) and such have to be a bad thing. But maybe it’s too idealistic to want that and expect companies to actually be held accountable if the obfuscation is hiding bad stuff

This seems needlessly gatekeepy to me. Are you saying everyone using technology needs to learn exactly how it all works? People aren’t allowed to just use the tools provided to them? Like are cameras worse now that you can just point and shoot vs having to go through many steps for the photo to maybe turn out ok?

Oh sick!! I was already on the $10/month plan. This is great news!!!

I think it’s supposed to become just normal element when it gets feature parity with current element

That was so fun! Thanks for hosting this 😊

The connections to the apps are all open source, as the other user said. And you can self host it too if you want to go that route

So much for waiting on the wait-list… But I’m excited!!!

I hope you can appreciate and understand that the decision was made, in part, because we had users asking for it. I recognize the shortcomings of a megathread. However it won’t be possible to make every user here happy. We’ve taken the actions that we thought were best based on the desires of some of our users.

We appreciate feedback, and are welcoming any suggestions on how this could be handled better

News about the companies that don’t involve him are still allowed outside the thread. The idea here is more to contain stuff about the man himself, as it gets spammy and repetitive after a while

Unfortunately tags are not currently a Lemmy feature, so this isn’t an option

Haha I had one of these phones. It’s battery was terrible but it was super nifty

Yeah, I’m not a professional, but I’ve completely moved to Godot for my hobbiest development. I really like how far it’s come. Also curious to see any developments in that area

I tried for way too long tonight to try and build memmy for Android to check it out. Couldn’t get it to run unfortunately. I’ll probably wait until there is a prebuilt apk to download

I have never moderated a community, so I don’t know the ins and outs of certain rules, but a rule for the same title as the article itself I think is a solid idea.

A politics rule seems like it would be hard to me, as there are a lot of stories that could fall into a grey area?