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  • vtez44@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    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.






  • Only real threats of Threads federation are EEE and server overload. Not the people from there or privacy. If someone wants to see some content you don’t want to see, like some opinion you don’t like, they should be able to see it. I don’t understand why there would be such list, it would be pure censorship and waste of time. I have heard Threads has a pretty good moderation, so that solves this problem anyway.

    I don’t get what would defederating with Facebook-federated instances gives you, though.








  • I think that for Lemmy and Linux the problem is actually in the people using it. Without people using it, they won’t be many posts/good software support. Without the posts/support there won’t be many users. It’s not some UI being different, or anything else. It’s the main issue. When you see lemmy.world frontpage (All, not Local), there are 15 threads about Reddit and Lemmy, 2 about Twitter limits and the rest is about tech. Meanwhile, on r/popular you have variety of communities, still mostly memes and videos but there are also other posts.

    It’s more about reddit that reddit is. You can’t make it long-term with this type of content. On other instances it’s more bearable, but it’s still not enough to keep people here.