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A decade after a disastrous launch, is Apple Maps finally good? (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/hguLn...
What’s the deal with Sensor Tower? (daringfireball.net)
The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverse (mastodon.social)
It will be open source, end to end encrypted using Signal’s double ratchet encryption protocol, and he plans to make it easy for fediverse platforms to integrate it. The beta will release later this month....
As an OG Reddit Sync user of over 10 years, all this arguing really brings a tear to my eye. 🥲 (startrek.website)
ELI5: How is Amazon able to sell me books so much cheaper than brick and mortar book stores in my area
I like shopping in book stores. There’s something about wandering the aisles and waiting for a book to jump out at you that I can’t get shopping online. Unfortunately, whenever I compare the price of a book Amazon has every in-person store beat, often pricing their offerings 30%-50% lower (or around $10/book in my...
Bluesky CEO responds | 2023-07-22 Letter to the Community (blueskyweb.xyz)
The social media platform Bluesky recently had an incident where a user created an account with a racial slur as the handle. The Bluesky team quickly removed the account but realized they should have had automated filters in place to prevent such issues. They are now implementing a two-step automated filtering and flagging...
What would be the problem if Threads federated with Lemmy&co in the future?
I’ve seen a lot of comments suggesting Threads should be pre-emptively defederated by Lemmy/kbin instances if it tries to join us. I’m a bit confused what the problem would be. When Meta does its usual corporate bullshit over at Threads, how would that hurt a user or community based on Lemmy.world? If anything, wouldn’t it...