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I have had Google as an app disabled for the past 2 months. I don’t use google assistant or anything like that and I have had no issues. I’m not going to uninstall the play store, google play services or carrier services since I know those are pretty much integral to my phone....

Fully functioning as in, you just eat it and lose weight, no strings or bullshit

I posted this as a comment in the wefwef community but thought it might also be relevant here. If anyone is interested in self hosting wefwef this is how I did it on macOS:...

I thought all apps were broken on July 1st?

I’m trying to move away from Google and other big tech corporations as much as I can without sacrificing practicality but it seems like the only way to make contactless payments is with stock android on a Google approved device....

I’ll start, mine will be Google Notes, 1Password and WhatsApp.

What is an instance? what is a federation? what is a server? can someone please describe in simple terms how this all runs and how we as users navigate it?

Since it seems to be a common question for many new users.

I saw a while back that facebook is opening a twitter competitor which will use the ActivityPub protocol, and thus will be able to federate with other fediverse instances, I also saw they invited some fediverse instance admins for an “off the records” meeting in their HQ....

First post. Majorly a lurker on reddit, and now that I’ve switched to Lemmy, most likely will continue to stay a lurker....

I have some good PDF ebooks I’m willing to share, but I suspect the seller embeds some tracking data in them to link them to my account, as every time I download them from the official website they have a different hash while being visually identical. The same when checking against the copies a friend bought from the same...

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Long time reddit is fun user and now I feel lost but I feel moving on is the right thing, I was wondering how do I find community spaces like there were on Reddit?

Version 5.6.22

Half shower thought, half stoner thought. It may seem obvious, but I was dwelling on the point for a while, deeper and deeper....

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f901c3e3-7c83-4503-9d4d-edf18126f851.jpeg...

Like how RES + old reddit had shift + x to toggle all photos being opened.

Hello, respectfully inviting everyone to the Yaoizone. This community will be an SFW and a more moderated version of a similar community at lemmynsfw.com. If you love yaoi, and want to talk about the boys and men we love, do visit and join at...

I downloaded the first 8 through a torrent, but I think there are 12-13 copies. This isn’t mushoku tensei, so both annas archive and zlib have failed me. I would apreciate if people here could provide more niche websites to search.

Prove me wrong, I dare you!

Instead of categorized instances (where communities are related to each other’s interests) (but I have seen people who don’t like the idea stil it’s ok), I have another idea of an “Admin’s Choice/regional/neighborhood” feed aside from my “subscribed”, “local” and “all”....

I’m assuming if I do that I would lose the s pen features right? I use that a bit...

Is there any hope? Or is it inevitable that big corporations will take over what started as a way to escape big corporate platforms and to focus on real communities and discussions and replace it with a toxic shithole pumped full of ads?