This seems to be the main issues with his apps. Visibility is scarce beyond the original post, wherein even with followers the chances of someone seeing your post beyond that honeymoon phase dwindles.

The only exception are users with lots of followers. From what I’ve seen in my brief time using Pixelfed for example, it’s usually accounts with at least a few hundred followers that see a highet retention of visibility.

You can’t just oust a fellow Dutchman!!!

Yeah a lot of it is in the unstable builds for practically any mainstream distros.

Literally this. It’s as easy as making a Bluesky account and mass changing all links to it, and putting a permanent banner on their site with their handle.

Haven’t heard of Tuta Mail, I’l be sure to look into it. Already in the process (mentally) to transition to Mullvad. The lack of port forwarding is a shame but their privacy and security is on another level.

Thank you for the recommendation!

Edit: All clients are OSS??? That’s amazing!!!

I think I love you.

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Honestly same! I was ready to delete my Pixelfeed account after having read all thatlbut I have high hopes that a turnaround comes. Here’s to hoping 🤞

It would seem I forgot to add the /s

In any case, I’m simply disappointed in his choices for not open sourcing software that would undoubtedly march on in terms of progress at light speed if fully FOSS.

I hope he learns to hone his ego, it’s within and without. I just hope he comes to his senses and begins to work with devs who are desperate to get a peak at the closed source portions of his sofware. - By open sourcing any blackboxed software.

Heads up @dansup@lemmy.world the creator of these apps refuses to open source the projects stating (Loops):

Not until it’s stable

Anyone who’s followed any project of any kind knows that this is just a formal way of saying they just won’t do it.

Not only is it not truly OSS, but he’s a bit of dick. Like weirdly so. Banning people for reverse engineering the API, creating a poll on whether or not ads should be introduced (only to 180 on the matter claiming the poll was a joke but also emphasizing that the poll was in favor of ads)

On the plus side he dislikes Trump, so there’s that I guess.

In any case I highly recommend people read this comment and the sources linked:

https://lemm.ee/comment/17804959

After reading through this, it wouldn’t surprise me if he turned out to be a Russian operative. In particular a Slovakian, no hate to Slavs but he just strikes me as one ya know?

It all just reads like a disgruntled federal operative letting the popularity get to their head.

Only trash adblockers like Adblock Plus and Adguard have that “chance”. uBlock Origin the goat fr frf

ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ Allllrighty then

That and a Revanced patched version of it - or better yet Piped.

What are some good examples of apks to use in regards to this use-case?

Care to elaborate? Genuinely i interested as to why that is

TIL. Gonna have to test this out my FreshRSS feed. Ty 🥰