Instagram Threads contains the text "This website might contain harmful software that is designed to steal information such as your passwords, credit card details and more." and I don't disagree
I unpacked it and now I am looking though the included files. I don't know too much about the structure of Android apps but there is a ton of insight into what its final form will look like just be exploring the contents...
Kbin had a successful round of funding thru NLNet https://nlnet.nl/project/Kbin and has already pulled in about 3k thru donations at https://buymeacoffee.com/kbin The really shows how much support we have right now for alternative self hosted infrastructure and I hope prompts even more people to step up and help build this thing we call the #fediverse together.
Kitsune is a new project that has joined the fediverse recently. It's mostly written in Rust and intends on Mastodon API compatibility so it can use the existing app ecosystem. It also just got initial support for viewing full PeerTube and Lemmy posts!
There is a new #Kbin app in progress by @hariette with the unfinalized name Kmoon. They are planning #Lemmy support as well! The #fediverse is stronger with the growth of the #threadiverse ecosystem
Well now we know why they changed their name from Riot to Element. Can't have the app be revolutionary themed if your actual audience is the fucking cops
Element really just told us if we don't like their direction of selling services to cops we should use another app. This is seriously the direction they settled on.
"we fund Matrix dev by selling encrypted messaging to governments, which includes police: if you don’t like that then please feel free to use a different app" May 9th, 2023 -@element
If you are unfamiliar with #twtxt, it is a different take on decentralized microblogging that has been around for many years, and it is quite interesting to see it now bridged between this side and that one!
@forteller oh yeah I agree its totally completely fucked of Apple to do such a thing in the first place. but sadly this is now just an accepted norm for these types of things in contemporary tech world