Now, hold on champ. There’s a couple of points here you’ve conveniently ignored or tweaked to suit your position.

Firstly, I’m not aware of any charter that says I’m obligated in any form to offer the community a say in the decision. Should I have? Morally, there’s obviously an argument for yes. But did I have to, no. The choice was mine, and I made one. It’s your bad luck that I started the community, I suppose.

Secondly, there was no bullying, soft or otherwise. What I said in the pinned post is what I meant: I want us all to come together in one community, and I’m excited by that community being on an instance that is dedicated specifically to tech communities. I’m excited by the idea of the admin of that community being focused on tech communities, and being actively engaged and available to address the needs of that tech community – rather than waiting on the busy admins of an increasingly massive instance.

As for the rest of it, you can debate it all you like. I had a very eloquent and levelheaded message from @ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world today that I’m in the process of replying to. I don’t think they’ll like my position, but I’m certainly thankful they came to me, politely and respectfully, rather than lobbing a misguided and factually flawed post into the community.

But hey man, cheers for playing.

Thanks Jeff, I appreciate the candour and respectful response here. I confess I was initially miffed that somebody would promote a ‘competing’ c here, but I quickly realised I’m not interested in rivalries here. Life’s busy enough as it is!

I think we’re doing pretty well here, but the idea of an instance dedicated to tech is appealing. Happy to chat about it. I’m @mikestevens on Telegram.

I don’t think this thread was created by one of them — the creator of this thread isn’t listed as a mod over there.

Like @Devgard I was tempted to lock or delete this thread — I feel like it’s a bit of a shitty thing to post — but it’s pretty clear from the upvotes that most people are excited for it. So… Whatever will be, will be!

That, and you still can’t follow hashtags in the official app. Kinda insane really.

Ah damn it, that’s what I was doing wrong. Thanks!

Post needs a major update already 😂

Seems like some habits are going to follow us from reddit. Downvoting at the drop of a hat is such a miserable shitty thing to do, but many seem wedded to it.

Great news. I’m probably more likely to use Sync, but seeing not one but two well regarded Android Reddit apps migrate to Lemmy is just bloody awesome.

Derp!

Feel free mate, just make sure you’re clear about it being yours, and don’t promote anything that isn’t transparent about what it does, what data it collects, what features it needs access to (and why), etc.

Good catch, thanks!

Go for it!

I do wonder though if we’d be better off with a series of threads devoted to particular app types… A thread for task/project management apps, a thread for notes apps, etc.

My fellow Aussie, Sam Beckman, does great weekly vids on his favourite Android apps. https://youtube.com/@sambeckman

The cute thing about this is that there are no big fines for political parties, media pundits and companies, or influencers producing and disseminating disinformation — but the tech companies will get fined if they don’t stop it spreading on their platforms.

No, me! Take me!

https://www.theverge.com/23773112/google-pixel-fold-vs-samsung-z-fold-4-comparison-head-to-head-foldable-phones

Pixel Fold v Galaxy Z Fold 4

Seifert talks about it all a bit more on his mastodon, too.

Man. Nilay’s ego can be a bit irritating at times, but he’s damn good at holding brands to account. Their editorial policies around background information, NDAs and transparency are likewise much stronger than lot of publishers these days.

🤔 A lot of things can be proven. Somebody either did say something or they didn’t, an event occurred or it didn’t, a study is founded in data and rigorous testing or it isn’t, scientific evidence is peer reviewed or it isn’t, etc.

It’ll technically all still be there on reddit, right? We can treat it as an archive without actually being active users. Heck, you could even form a volunteer group to collate all the most important threads and key points into some posts here, or some google docs, etc.

What’s their promise / reputation like for major version updates?

Interesting that they’re trying this again. It didn’t work in Australia.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/16/977776254/facebook-reaches-deal-with-news-corp-australia-to-pay-for-news-content

Sadly this is more a symptom of how trademark law works. There’s a “use it or lose it” aspect that compels brands to fiercely, overzealously defend their logo against any that look even remotely similar, or they risk losing their hold over it.

Brands don’t do it for their own satisfaction; really the bad press it can generate is often enough to see any case dropped — but what matters is that they show an effort to ‘defend’ their trademark.