rowdyrockets

opened to read article

sees ugly-ass AI slop picture

closes immediately

To me, the AI slop is a stamp of quality. A bad one.

Ezpz. Just added feddit.org to my instance block. Freedom of the fediverse at work.

Short for Malignanttumario

Nightmare fuel.

Looks great apart from the dorky ass inscription.

Don’t breathe this

Is that a Will It Blend reference?

If I had a nickel for every time someone has whined that you need to self host this, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot but still noteworthy because this is literally a self-host community.

This isn’t malware, it’s a scam which is harder to detect. No filtering process is ever 100% successful. I’d argue they do a good job at keeping out most of the junk. A quick look at the Playstore confirms this.

Sideloading is accessible to anyone with 15 minutes to educate themselves on it. I have a torrent client, an ad-free YouTube, and UTM sideloaded on my US iPhone.

I do not want to download a different app launcher for every app I download. Especially given they won’t be restricted to Apple’s strict privacy policies. Imagine a different launcher for every bank card, none of them supporting Wallet anymore.

I realize not everyone will agree with this, but I bought an iPhone for easy of use and because I like Apple’s offerings. I knew about the walled garden going in, and if I didn’t want to participate in it, I would just bought a different phone - as anyone is free to do.

They’ll refund anyone stupid enough to have fallen for it. What more do you need?

I’ll add 2 more that resonate with me:

3. Discussions of distributing copyright material is banned. (Not actually sharing, obviously that is illegal, but they’ve banned the mere discussion of it.)
4. They have not defederated from Meta’s Threads

Hey! There are dozens of us!