I’m not entirely shocked. They get kicked off mainstream sites regularly, they need somewhere for their echo chamber to exist.

Well, I’ll never see it, unless TI or another American company designs their own version.

Unironically, Ditto.

Mint here. It looks like Windows and runs the software and hardware I want. Simple as that.

Well, this way the apartheidist will never see the bugs he’s introduced into any of the systems he’s broken.

I genuinely don’t mind that too much.

So we need to defend the First Amendment again. They should probably have constricted the 2nd before the 1st for their own good.

Yes, but 90% of everything is crap. Why should we expect data centers to be any different?

She’s about to be so fired. I wish her the best.

So we’re back to the 80s. Now, can the US market pick itself back up?

Totally agree with you that everyone in the fediverse should be working together. Especially the amazing devs.

On Android, software can be made with free tools, released on Github/Gitlab/Forgejo/etc, and pushed into an F-Droid repo. Heck, you might not even need the F-Droid side, you can just throw an APK up at your free host of choice. Plus, I don’t think there’s a language restriction in terms of what can be compiled for Android (I’ll make my ignorance known here). Apple is not an open platform. One language is accepted, they have one way to develop software, one (overstuffed) place to download that software from. It is much more difficult to develop an app for iOS compared to Android. And if you try to monetize it, people will use a PWA.

To make it clear, this is not meant to be a debate on Apple. This is just my take on why free fediverse software is much more likely to show up on Android.

I don’t really have a positive thing to say about people who want to stick to Apple as their primary device ecosystem.

It really is, from my limited use. I use the PWA on my (very old) phone and Firefox on desktop. But I like Interstellar.

Oh, I’m aware that both Lemmy and Mastodon have good apps. I’m just pointing out that if the ‘argument’ is that alternatives don’t have an app, MBin does have one.

Why aren’t we suggesting Mbin over Lemmy, actually? Because it seems like it has the same options. And Mbin even has an app (not just the PWA function)!

CALL APOGEE SAY AARDWOLF

Still gonna stay with Starfleet Command 2: Orion Pirates.

But I do enjoy the point-and-click adventure games (and I wish Voyager had gotten one in addition to Elite Force).

Sure. And they’ll get paid by the person who chooses to buy it to release it, or by the library.

So that everyone can experience it mostly. Potentially, yes, they could profit from it too, possibly, yes.

I just want to make it clear, I am a hobby writer who regularly releases my work PD.