My gaming PC has 9

I use browser for no ads. Applies to many others too. I avoid downloading apps as far as possible.

But how do we hate-follow Elon then? We need our daily dose of outrage after all.

Are you sure? Last time I checked it just gives you a pop-up asking if you’re sure you want to use that word as some people can find it problematic and if you say yes it’ll get posted like a normal tweet.

Well I said black twitter because I’m talking about the Voldemort slur I’m not even allowed to say aloud

To my knowledge, twitter doesn’t block anyone from using slurs to begin with. I’m sure you can find plenty used on daily basis on “black twitter” for example.

That being said I’m going to need a more credible source than a random screenshot

It’s happening on a social media platform none of you has ever heard of before and will never hear of again. Calm down and move on.

What’s minor in this case? The fact that it’s not specified makes me think we’re speaking of a 17 year old.

I believe in voting with your wallet. Giving money to companies that practice anti-consumer behaviour sends them the signal that you’re okay with what they’re doing. I’m not okay with it so I’m sticking to my principles.

I never bought a device with non-removable battery either and now thanks to EU it seems that I don’t ever need to either.

I also bought an older model MacBook because it had a better keyboard aswell as HDMI port and SD-card reader. Now the newest models have them again because enough people like me refused to buy the inferior models.

Yeah. XCover 6Pro is the only device that met my requirements and is the one I went with.

It also made it so much easier to choose a new device. Requirements: headphone jack and a removable battery. Results: 1

Even Fairphone made themselves irrelevant to me by dropping the headphone jack. What an absolutely stupid decision to make especially for a device like that.

Samsung XCover 6 Pro. Has a removable battery aswell.

Wont buy a smartphone without it

I didn’t even bother to install 3rd party launcher on my current device. I had been using Nova ever since I got my first android device.

I used to be super excited about new device releases but I’ve lost nearly all my interest in smartphone technology. LG V10/V20 was peak smartphone in my opinion and they’ve been just gotting more and more boring since. My current one most resembles that of some old granny except for the lack of bloatware. I could barely be bothered to look for a new wallpaper.

It’s effectively the same thing. This just does it automatically instead of the user having to toggle the feature on and off.

I don’t mind this at all. My friends already are not interested in anything I say so I might aswell chat with the AI like I already do with chatGPT.

Basically every single person in the developed western world

Lemmy definitely is by-far the best platform to keep up with what’s going on on twitter.

I feel so wise now for having landed as an user of both independently

I think that even if EEE is what Facebook is going after here, after a certain point some users will just get fed up with the demands/changes they’re making and move to an instance that is incompatible/defederated with Threads and then we’re pretty much back at where we’re right now.

Like when reddit gave the ultimatum to switch to their app or stop using reddit we didn’t really have a 3rd option. However if reddit was in the fediverse we could have just told them to have fun with their new platform while the rest of us stay with the old one among ourselves. Sure, you’ll still lose majority of the content there but when it comes to threads we’re not really interested in their content in the first place so it doesn’t matter. If a Lemmy user is willing to play by Facebook’s rules just so that they can stay connected to a bigger userbase then I’m not sure if we’re actually losing anything of a value if and when our ways apart. Facebook can poison the majority of the fediverse but there’s not much they can do with the instances that don’t care if they get defederated or not. The niche instances will continue existing.

I’m not personally against my instance blocking them but I’m strongly against people pushing their values onto others. I would much rather have individual users block that instance if they so wish instead of someone deciding for them. Sure you can always switch instances but what Fedi Garden seems to be doing here is going against the essence of fediverse and bullying instances to do as they want just like we’re worried of Facebook doing.