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Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
  • The thing I hate about signal is the UI. Everything looks way too big on my device. WhatsApp, for example, holds 2 more chats, and the messages themselves are tidier.

    This may seem like it's not a big deal, but UI is absolutely crucial on order to get people to actually use the app. I moved a few people to signal but they just hated the way it looks. "seems like an app for old people, font too big". I can see that. They moved back to insta/WhatsApp.

    I think some small and easy UI changes could make the app much better: just give us a "compact" mode.

  • People Ask Why Some Root Their Device and For Me This is Why
  • I use macrodroid instead, though I have also paid for Tasker.

    I just find macrodroid much easier to use. I learned to use Tasker, then was not using it for a few months, went back to it to implement something and god damm, what a horrible UI. I had forgotten how to use it. Decided to try macrodroid and it is just so beautiful and easy..

  • Do you think animals have thoughts? Are they capable of hearing that little voice that we humans have in our heads?
  • I don't believe this. I know this is supposedly true, but I feel like people are lieing just to feel special or something.

    How can someone not have a head voice? If one needs to go to the supermarket, does one not think "humm.. What do I need.. I need bananas, toilet paper.."..

  • Ex Redditors of Lemmy what made you come on over? What happened at Reddit that you made the switch?
  • I find Lemmy much more ethical. It truly is by the community, for the community.

    On reddit, a select few are getting rich by the content YOU create. Seems a bit weird to me. You create content, they get to buy a new house/yacht. No thank you.

  • what Lemmy communities don't exist but you wish they did?
  • Even on reddit, PT subs are hard to get active. There is /r/Portugal, literaciafinanceira and maybe devpt. I think you are stretching too thin.

    Have you thought of just doing 1 sub on Lemmy.pt, and just add [tags] in the title or something? Once Lemmy.pt has enough users, you could slowly open more.

  • What makes you stand out?
  • Yes, me too! The justice part. I am very principled. And it is something that I, sometimes (?) hate about myself. I think it mostly drives people away.

    I figure many people on Lemmy are the same in that regard, very principled people.

  • [UPDATE] Raivo wiped all of my TOTP codes
  • I am currently using authy. I would like an open source alternative, of course, but seeing how important 2fa is, I require proper sync/backups, like authy has. I don't want to manage them myself with google drive or the likes, as I don't even have a google acc.

  • Lemmings, why do you think Lemmy is better than Reddit?
  • Lemmy is so much more performant than reddit.. It is crazy! Try going to reddit's deskop site and then go to a Lemmy site..

    Also, reddit is now blocking VPN users, unless you are logged in...

    And finally, if I use reddit, I am contributing to a rich guy buying his nth car/house/yacht.. On Lemmy, I am not enriching the wallets of the already rich.

  • Looking for an app that allows me to open other apps by side swiping

    I currently use Swiftly Switch. It is an app that adds a small bar to the side of the device and by swiping that part, I am shown a list of apps of my choosing. This allows me to open apps much faster.

    Sadly, it is not open source. Is there something similar but open source?

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    Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why
    www.wbur.org Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why

    Climate scientists, in an effort to stave off despair, aren’t telling the truth about our warming planet. In reality, we're incredibly close to the point of no return: when rising seas drown island nations and almost all coral reefs die. I’m here to tell climate scientists — and my fellow climate jo...

    Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why
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    What is your ringtone?

    I feel like changing my ringtone.

    What is yours?

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    Community links are not working, are they?

    Community links are not working in Boost, are they?

    !solarpunk@slrpnk.net should be a workable link, that is, if you click on it, it should redirect you to that community. It does not..

    Also, on boost, is it possible to have Autocomplete for usernames/communities as one has in the web/desktop version of lemmy?

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