They deleted my Reddit account for me long time ago, I'm ahead of all of you.

I use them constantly on laptop with GNOME. It makes it easier to switch windows with touchpad. On desktop I don't use them so often, because I forget about them.

If you don't buy no-name brand phones, you will get at least one major update. Even chinese brands such as xiaomi will provide updates. You can also install generic LineageOS image if your phone can be unlocked some way, official or not. It works on most devices.

But many smart TVs become useless very quick. When I was using 2015 phone in 2020, TV newer than that already loaded the lightweight Google version for unsupported browsers and vast majority sites/apps became unavailable. It used browser that was already 2 years old when it was released and never released an update to it. But when there was root vulnerability, they released a fix after long time of being basically unsupported.

But you know, it's literally #1 on the charts and it has AI. I must try it!

Enough people are used to the proprietary apps, so it doesn't matter for them. 0,01% of users flowing to other protocols for just part of their conversations isn't going to hurt them.

Fediverse is a network where servers send user posts to each other, in the effect every server should have the same or similar content. It's not one app, it's a protocol and you can make implementation yourself.

AFAIK Lemmy and Mastodon are connected with each other, but using them to read other one content is kind of buggy/hard. Kbin is easiest to operate if you want to see content of both.

I'm still using Magisk on LOS 20. Banking app works flawlessly and SafetyNet passes, at least on microg.

You just need to install this module instead of using magiskhide now: https://github.com/kdrag0n/safetynet-fix

Depends on your usage, if you use only flatpak, fedora silverblue would be perfect. If you want to manage multiple computers or you're customizing it, switch to nixos and you won't look back.

But both are different than traditional distros, especially nix. If you already are advanced user of linux, you'd have problems with anything more than installing apps on nix for first time.

Wait, you didn't post this comment with 3.1? All the cool people use it bro

You can also use LibRedirect addon to redirect Reddit/Twitter/etc automatically to alternative frontends.

Not dying, but decommercializing. Glad to see it, unless people will just go to something worse.

But I think people are overexaggerating how fast and how big this process is. Most people are still on Twitter and Reddit, it's just some people (maybe 5%) that left. Especially on Twitter, where it didn't really get worse since it got bought.

The data instance really has is your browser info, IP and clicks. Posts are on all federated instances. That's for every site out there, and kbin doesn't have (I hope) business to sell this data to anyone.