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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The only legit argument is that you can install a very malicious app.

This would be bad if Google and Apple didn't already allow malicious apps in their stores already.

Google already has play protect, but it doesn't do shit. If Google legitimately made play protect work, then the risks would be 0.

All of the pros outweigh the cons, though. Can't even tell you how many times an app has updated and completely broke shit. Being able to sideload the APK to downgrade to a previous version is quite literally a lifesaver.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

My favourite are the comments of people saying "return the sub back to normal, this shit is stupid and isn't doing anything! I don't even use Apollo so I don't care" - posted from Boost for Reddit.

A lot of people don't even understand. They genuinely think this only affects Apollo and that Christian is being a baby lol. Can't wait to see their faces when their app stops working and they whine.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I think you mean there are Lemmy users (qbittorrent) and Reddit users (utorrent).

Can't convince them what they're using is bad and that there are better alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have 8 Android apps downloaded. I get multiple updates per day. I'm subscribed to GitHub release notification and my email is blowing up nonstop.

Everyone is working hard, which is great. Just a few weeks ago when I joined Lemmy the Jerboa app was pretty shit. I'd give it a 2/10. Now it's a solid 6/10. Just needs more features and to stop timing out every 60 seconds.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Cool, but let's not pretend Mojang are the good guys.

They added chat moderation on private servers that you host yourself on your own hardware using your own internet.

The entire community was in uproar over it for months and they didn't care. They deleted all criticism from their sub and continued on like nothing was happening. They refused to answer any questions about it, and uploaded new snapshots that only had ONE change, and that was to break mods that disabled chat moderation.

This was so bad it actually prompted modders to backport all of the 1.19 features to 1.18.

Just thought I'd remind everyone. Mojang is a shit company now that they are owned by Microsoft. They are not the good guys.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (8 children)

No, honestly.

I hate that the algorithm is super broken and the only meaningful sort option is "TopDay", which means Lemmy is only good for me to look at once every day at the same time.

Admittedly, I'm so bored, I open Boost for Reddit for more content.

Really hope more content comes to lemmy before third party apps shut down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How's the framework? I'm really interested it in. Any downsides?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Good thing I'm in Canada and they don't even sell it here. But if they did, they'd probably charge $3200 for it lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The sticky thread has a ton of alternatives!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Probably lemmy.ml, the official instance.

I know they allow some instances that sole purpose is to hate on liberals, which is annoying to see so many aggressive political posts (any extremest is annoying), but they are easy to block yourself.

Beehaw is good, but they de-federate EVERYONE. I see posts from the admins there nearly daily talking about new instances they are de-federating from today. They also disabled down-voting, and community creation.

https://beehaw.org/post/798826?scrollToComments=true

https://beehaw.org/post/567170?scrollToComments=true

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

We are trying to keep an updated list of apps over on the Android community.

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