Off topic question, I’m trying to learn about seedboxes: Do you have to configure your own VPN with your current seed box or is it not necessary?

It doesn’t support Android Auto, right? That’s what’s holding me back from installing it.

I share your experience but unfortunately don’t have answers

I was facing issues with lemmy.world too, now seems to be okay

That seems as a weird decision by Firefox considering their relatively privacy focused image.

Thanks for the reply!

I had actually given it a try. For some reason, I don’t see this post in the “hidden posts” section in my profile.

Love it, as my feed can get fresh items when I check Lemmy frequently.

However, I have noticed that once a post is hidden there’s no way to get it to be displayed back on the app. The “hide read” functionality hid this post once it was read but to give this feedback I had to go to your profile @aeharding@lemmy.world and find the post again. Am I missing something?

What additional addon does Pimp My Streamio provide? I couldn’t find a list of their addons. Is it worth the hassle as I only use Streamio on Android.

Streamio with Torrentio add on + a Debrid service is all you need.

Why would the app installation be slow? Do they create sandbox for each app?

Yup, you have a good point with the third party advertisers not following GDPR. And I agree that the privacy policy should be as transparent as possible.

Yep, I just wish atleast the major instances outline this clearly to the users. Fediverse definitely has its merits that outweigh these pitfalls. Everyone should still be aware of this in as transparent way as possible

It is reasonable because I can have a trust basis with my followers who are my friends/family. If a malicious instance host can just use a plugin to view follower only post, that’s not going to be expected by an average user. That’s why I posted in YSK.

I wasn’t aware of PGP, thanks for that info!

Yes, but there is a reasonable assumption that your pictures will only be viewed by your followers on Instagram. I can’t see myself switching to PixelFed. I’ve completely switched from Reddit and Twitter to Mastodon, Lemmy, as I don’t tend to share my personal information there anyways.

There are laws that you can enforce by suing them. It’s probably not going to be the case here

Are there any major daily driver features from Android missing here? Also are the updates usually stable?

Ofcourse, you can dox yourself in other text based sites like Twitter, Reddit.

But, ActivityPub has other applications like PixelFed. If someone doesn’t know about these privacy implications there private pictures can be exposed to even malicious accounts/instances that are not on theit followers list. It’s best for everyone to be aware of what they are getting into here.

The article was a nice read. I’m surprised that there is either no awareness or discussion in the privacy conscious tech crowd over here on the lack of privacy from anonymous bad actors. Everyone seems to only care about Meta, who are bad, but the most they will do with our data is advertise to us. The other bad actors enabled by ActivityPub can actually doxx, redistribute, save our posts, messages.

It’s usually the water that makes people sick. When people from third world countries move to first world countries and live there for a couple of years, they will get sick too when they revisit their home country.