@Protoman64 Kbin has a separate interface for microblogging and groups, that’s why it’s not that obvious. For Lemmy, well, there’s no type of blogging to begin with.

Friendica really shines in this regard, as it has the ability to interact with both groups and regular people in the same feed, while the posts are also clearly marked as such. 😁

@testing777

No worries! Also from Friendica

I think this means allowing the listing of third party app stores inside the Google Play Store - so you could search for F-Droid in Google Play for example instead of downloading and installing the .apk manually.

Wow, that looks fantastic. Congrats!

Out of curiosity, what are you planning to store there? Wine? Ice? 😁

@funn Online content is, sadly, more vulnerable than we think. All it takes is one server to go down, and the entire website/thing goes bust.

search results will become secondary as they push their service

Oh, so they’re gonna emphasize less on search results and more onto their half-arsed services that they’re axing from time to time? This is so Google of them.

“Elon Musk can’t invent”

@perishthethought thank you!

@perishthethought I see. So the feeds from the OPML file are imported into the reader’s own database, right?

@GadgeteerZA Oh, I see. Thanks for the extra info! 😁

@GadgeteerZA it’s not really that new, it’s been around for as long as Mastodon got the first boost back in Autumn 2022 (at least that’s when I first heard about it, something like that). There’s plenty of other microblogging servers out there, as microblogging is overwhelmingly served via AP and not only. There’s even a Nextcloud app for that.

Check out the list below and sort by Social network (micro):
fediverse.party/en/miscellaneo…

@tardigrada yea, I’m going closer and closer to the point these MFs won’t leave my browser

@jeena cool. I think I will look into it. Thanks! 😁

@jeena it doesn’t connect to any server even when you’re online?

@jeena I only use DeepL to translate and that’s it. I also started taking notes in .md files, so that could make for a good use case in the future if there was an AI that I could use without connecting to the internet (e.g. to only let me tell stuff based on the files I got). Otherwise I am pretty reticent on AI. Perhaps I watched too many fiction movies, but I am afraid it will become too sentient and somehow escape the human oversight, thus creating havoc in our lives.

@hedge Wow, this is big. Fedi needs more macroblogging options to compensate for the domination of Mastodon and other microblogging platforms. And also it being another corporate actor like Meta, but smaller, will create the incentive for Meta to play more fairly in the long run and not EEE the Fediverse with Threads, just like it did with XMPP by integrating it under Facebook almost a decade ago. This is exactly what we need to become and stay mainstream.

@t3rmit3 As long as those missiles don’t carry nuclear warheads, it’s all manageable.

@TheMonkeyLord in China you mean? Well, if CCP would find a way to control it, then yes.

@Stillhart yea, you can, but that means trusting the third party providing the apk. Besides that, China also has a big power over the internet. They could outright block the apps from working altogether only by cutting the connection. Especially with Threads and WhatsApp where you cannot choose any proxy within the app.

In fact, I think they already did it.

@Sgn

@ElCanut geee, I wonder how did they make Microsoft Access.