A big issue that I don’t see being discussed a lot is that randomized polling has become more difficult as less people are willing to pick up their phone for unknown numbers nowadays.

Most polling is now opt-in, meaning that the data will be biased towards the groups who want to express their opinions the most (this tends to be the far right). Not saying the polling is wrong but perhaps not entirely accurate

that’s fair. I fully believe they could pull some fuckery that would make everything worse

honest question: why does it matter? all data in any fediverse project is public anyways

Why would they buy a company that is using a workaround when they could just make an iMessage app for android

lol. lmao.

The username button seems to be taking up the full width in the compact posts. Tapping on a compact post brings me to the user profile 80% of the time.

Btw would it be better to open an issue on github when I spot a bug?

I think you can just squeeze the username into the info line with upvote count, replies, and time. There’s plenty of space there and iirc that’s how Apollo did it with the name showing up before the rest of the info

I think we need to keep children off the internet but there’s not really a way to do that other than having parents be more responsible. I think public shaming could work wonders in this area

The more likely reason for blacklisting the developer is to cause a chilling effect on other developers. Apple has one of the best developer ecosystems and Meta is likely terrified of letting their developers anywhere near Apple. Having good apps is so important to a platform

what do you mean by this

I just want to add some additional context: Taiwan existed as a nation long before the RoC fled to the island and massacred the population (look up the White Terror). There continues to be quite a bit of tension between the original population and the RoC about the national identity. I wouldn’t really call Taiwan the true China. My family is native Taiwanese and I know there is a lot of anger at how their government was taken over.