To quote Life of Brian,

Splitters!

…assuming of course these are people who left the open Fediverse to join another corporate platform.

That’s the kind of reassurance I needed to go ahead. Thanks!

Cool, cool. Will give it a shot when I have a couple hours to install it 👍 Thanks for your help!

One followup question, might be out of your ballpark since you’re happily using Iodé: in their FAQ, they answer the question “Can I uninstall iodéOS and go back to Google Android?” with

Yes you can. Please follow this link [to their installation page 🤔] for iodéOS uninstallation.

Caution : uninstalling iodéOS requires coding skills.

I hope those “coding skills” aren’t more involved than being able to run a couple of adb and fastboot commands. Have you seen anything to the contrary, in support forums and similar?

to be clear, I’m not “going back to Google Android”, but I might get adventurous with other custom ROMs.

Yeah, it’s definitely that. Love how the Timeless Child can be used to patch canon holes in retrospect (but probably not the ones it created) 😄

Uh, okay. Weird use of “uninstallable”, but this is definitely good to hear! I was looking at Calyx that has a suite of apps that will just always be stored on your device whether you install them or not. Glad this isn’t that sort of situation 🙂

Oh, good one! I love a good comparison table, and this one I didn’t know of!

Yeah, I’ve been on LOS/mG for a few years. Sorry if I didn’t make it clear. I’m just wondering if Iodé is a decent replacement or they have too opinionated a setup…

I don’t have anywhere near your experience, but the key points (customizable, no bloat, good wiki) all scream Arch, as you predicted 🙂

I think we agree on the limited capability of (what is currently passed off as) “artificial intelligence”, yes.

VC = venture capitalism.

That’s a feature, not a bug. Celebrity culture needs to get in the sea.

According to that research mentioned in the article, the answer is yes. The big caveats are

• that you need to get conspiracy theorists to sit down and do the treatment. With their general level of paranoia around a) tech, b) science, and c) manipulation, that not likely to happen.
• you need a level of “AI” that isn’t going to start hallucinating and instead enforce the subjects’ conspiracy beliefs. Despite techbros’ hype of the technology, I’m not convinced we’re anywhere close.

The Great Sellout to Meta.

Is this Great Sellout in the room with us right now? Because Meta did implement an open protocol into Threads, but it has been widely blocked by other ActivityPub instances. That is not a “sellout”.

Sounds like your principles will only lead you off social media, perhaps the internet entirely?

Library Genesis

Let’s take that etymology one step further: “fan” comes from “fanatic”, so a stan is a stalker fanatic. Which somehow has become a positive term in some circles.

Need to read up on smoke signals and/or carrier pigeons 🙂

Welp, there goes the [online] neighbourhood! It was nice knowing you all.

Was my first impulse too, but looking at their app selection now, it seems kind of … inutile? Unsexy? Old?