Read their comment and I’m left scratching my head. Their role in security with the straight android phone (not the /e/OS version) is simply pushing security patches as/when they get them from the Android team, as they’re using straight Android. Security is handled by Google for Android, not them. When it comes to /e/OS, no idea how good/bad it is, but apparently Graphene has some beef with Murena (the people who make it), at least according to their comment.

Not at all knowledgable about mobile kernels and drivers to comment on the rest of it. I do know Fairphone 5 uses an unusual CPU normally used for SoC as that was the only CPU that was both good enough to run Android reasonably while simultaneously providing very long-term driver updates (they’re aiming for a minimum of 8 years of updates).

If you’re in Europe, Fairphone is an option. I’m pretty happy with mine.

Non-German but I am in the EU. Didn’t find it odd at all. Just assumed it was “flow market” in German.

Should be an option to allow/disallow non-instance users to vote. That’d be really useful here in sh.itjust.works for the Agora.

According to a quick Google search (I’m no expert on copyright law), a sufficiently original email is automatically copyrighted. What constitutes “sufficiently original” seems to be pretty arbitrary.

So I guess if you post a short story, that’s automatically copyrighted. Commenting “this” is not. And then there’s a huge grey zone in the middle.

Only if the users on that server treat it like a death sentence.

Remote Follow sounds like a really amazing QoL improvement

FOR KARL!

Hey! Great to see you guys again :)

Close enough :)

It’s not unusual for employees of charitable non-profits to earn less than their for-profit counterparts. Again, I refer back to my soup analogy.

Also, digging around, I found out that patreon is not the only source of fund-raising and that they have received a 50,000 EUR bug bounty grant.

I don’t mean to imply that Mastodon devs are rolling around in a pool of gold like Scrooge McDuck, but they are getting funded.

Why aren’t admins considered part of the community? When it comes to the mastodon developers, they’re making 30,000 USD a month. I think they’re fine.

Is that an apples-to-apples comparison though? To me, that sounds like “Show me a soup kitchen that’s able to pay market rate for chefs”.

Why can’t it rely on donations? People poo-poo this, but I’ve yet to hear a substantive reason as to why.

Heh, all good :)

I haven’t really used it, so this is all second-hand:

As far as I understand, it’s a younger project with more papercuts than Lemmy, but more features. Instead of just being a link aggregator like Reddit/Lemmy, it’s also got microblog functionality so it plays better with Mastodon. For users of Mastodon, having a one-stop-shop for both services is pretty handy.

It’s much harder and more problematic to set up kbin instances, so almost everyone just uses kbin.social. This means it’s a very centralized fediverse platform compared to Lemmy, but that might be seen as an advantage to some.

Could not agree more. I said basically this, less eloquently after a day of being on sh.itjust.works.

What’s even cooler here is I feel we have the opportunity to have neighboring villages: I’m a villager in my instance, you’re a villager in your instance, and civility and understanding is promoted because we are in a real sense representatives of our respective villages. We don’t want to make our villages look bad.

As these instances & communities stabilize and mature over the coming weeks/months, I’m very excited to see what happens next.

I just checked the community browser for you. There’s [email protected], but it looks pretty dead.

GDPR is absolutely not applicable here. Their platform, their rules when it comes to what people can and can’t post (with the exception of personal information, that is covered by GDPR). If tomorrow they decide that commenting the word “Banana” is a bannable offence, they’re well within their rights.