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But, like, how?

So you’re Meta, and you want to Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish ActivityPub. Maybe you add some new nonstandard feature that’s not compatible with existing Mastodon clients. Annoying, but are people really going to sacrifice everything they like about their favorite client so they can take advantage of some random proprietary feature?

On android?

Exactly. Personally, I like the idea of the Fediverse going mainstream, even if it has to be via a questionable company like Meta.

But, if you don’t like that idea, that’s fine too — there will be instances with both policies.

Google stopped supporting XMPP, which sucked, but did it have any effects beyond that?

Google’s actions just restored XMPP to the same status it would have been if they’d never supported it in the first place.

I’ll post a positive option to mix things up:

It’s a polished product, with no ads, no TikTok style video knockoffs, high quality photo uploads, and a decent recommendation engine. It has all the ingredients it needs for success.

Now, don’t get me wrong, Meta will likely ruin it eventually by A/B testing it to death to maximize revenue.

While all that is true, you actually shouldn’t do that in your review, as that will often get it flagged/removed. (They’ll think it’s not a “real” review and instead part of a review bombing effort.)

I mostly really want the Touch ID rumor to be true — side Touch ID works so well on the iPad Air, and I’d much rather have it than Face ID

Yeah, this seems like a pretty logical next step considering the overpowered hardware in the Studio Display.

Really hoping the EU finally forces Apple to open up their devices and we can be done with their nonsense. Let me use real Firefox on my iPad already!

Someone released a successor! Wish they'd move it to Lemmy: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/

It seemed to work fine at first, but starting today I'm noticing a huge number of async failures; I've had to refresh the page in order to get almost anything (comments, posts, communities, list of communities, profiles, etc) to load.

they have full control over the app

Yup, this is also my problem with Signal; you're stuck with whatever boneheaded decisions the devs make and there's nothing you can do about it. Personally, my pet peeve is their refusal to add any kind of data export. As someone who likes backing up chat history, this is a dealbreaker for me.

A more likely outcome is Big Tech coming in and fragmenting and dissolving ActivityPub servers like all the Lemmy servers.

How? If, say, Facebook built a Lemmy-compatible instance, the worst they could do is eventually defederate it from other Lemmy instances, in which case we're right back where we started.

Thanks for the link! Looking at the screenshots though, they don't seem particularly old-Reddit-like to me, though, unfortunately.

Yup, and this is a good thing IMO. Ad supported instances, subscription based instances, and donation based ones all can coexist, and users can pick whichever they prefer.

Much better than the alternative of “you get stuck with whatever the current CEO thinks is the best strategy”.

I like the new compact themes! I'm hoping someone contributes an old-reddit-lookalike theme soon 🤞

If Lemmy ends up with enough interesting content that it supplants Reddit as a source for vapid YouTube channels’ content, I see that as a win for Lemmy.

I’d argue it is, because of the damage they’re doing to their brand.

I’ve said it in a couple other threads, but Reddit has other ways they can monetize their 3rd party app users, such as requiring subscriptions to use third party apps, or even by simply giving third party app devs a longer lead time to change to a paid model. Instead of doing either of those things, the CEO had a tantrum and alienated a bunch of people.

Really hoping we get an official Apollo client for Lemmy! (Granted the current clones aren't bad, but I'm a fan of the OG)

Exactly -- this is almost certainly bad for Reddit's business at this point. The problem here isn't necessarily capitalism so much as it is a egocentric CEO gone mad with power.