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Just in time for the EU to also force third party app stores through, and X attempting to make one sounds plausible even if they get nowhere with it.

Gotta cook it before wrapping it

If this turns out to be EU-only, then it’ll be useful for niche apps and ones that aren’t normally allowed (like emulators, third party YouTube apps, and other cool shit), but it won’t be commercially useful for the titans of tech like Google and Meta. Not a bad start.

As an American visiting Europe, please do! Dealing with multiple airports here sucks so much!

No need to refresh. Duplicate replies are a fact of life on federated sites or threads that get a lot of activity.

As far as I can tell, following someone via Kbin is for either getting their microblog posts (Mastodon-style) or for more generally getting their activity federated to your instance (if it’s like the general ActivityPub concept).

Based on how many people invested in GameStop, AMC, and Bed, Bath, And Beyond, there is clearly a large number of dumbass retail investors. Too bad that’s unlikely to be enough to make a good IPO.

Communities are sort of already hashtags when using the microblog post type. Seems like an interesting approach.

Wait what part of reddit was “easy”?

If you could run your own Signal instance, then that could help alleviate concerns of bad faith operators. That’s what Session is essentially (started as a fork of Signal): https://getsession.org

It’s not reactive. A proper reactive system can handle fluctuations in usage patterns more robustly.

Anything less than 99% of infrastructure working that way would be surprising. Everything is held together with scotch tape and scotch whisky.

Spez is playing both sides so he comes out on top!

I also choose this guy’s wife.

There are two legitimate concerns about Signal: they use real phone numbers as identifiers, and you have to trust Signal as the server operator as they don’t allow their client to be used with other servers. While the server software is also open source, you have to trust that they’re running the same version in production.

Oh no, Apple develops Apple-specific features to add value to their products! Someone alert the Department of Justice! My bubbles will NOT be discriminated against!

Just wait until someone posts something containing the substring “69”!