It’s not about being a hassle to maintain, it’s about users thinking they were sending secure messages when they weren’t. The simplest explanation is that Signal is a secure messenger, so the app shouldn’t let you send insecure messages. I’m sure it lost them a few users but they’re not trying to gain maximum market share like for-profit orgs try to.

I’ve wanted to pay FTL on a touchscreen for years

Sounds like the very thing to motivate you to ditch your gmail account, don’t let them hold you hostage!

The Nexus legacy lives on!

The fact that they’re your whole life is the problem. You’ll understand when you grow up.

Can we move away from the habit of just copy-pasting clickbait video titles with no information as to what they’re actually about? Lemmy gives you a description field, you have the power to summarise videos which should really be blog posts!

I was going to post something dismissive about an air-gapped phone being pretty useless, then I remembered I have an old Xperia Play which I repurposed as a dedicated emulator

If you’ve got a device with zero vulnerabilities which will never have any discovered then whoever made it is in need of a Nobel prize

I need all the protection I can get now Big Subreddit are after me!

Technically yes, but if you’re already paying for the thing you actually wanted then it’s essentially a free trial on top of that

Go back to your torrents, poor boy.

Lol, I thought we were going to have a serious discussion about the relative merits of advertising vs community servers with donations, turns out you’re just an elitist cunt. Probably my mistake for not seeing the “TikTok and YouTube are my only sources of entertainment” red flag!

It’s a free trial. I don’t know why everyone’s so shocked, they’re essentially giving you one or two free books in the hope that you’ll be hooked and want to pay for more!

Relevant xkcd

Google will be shuddering

Well it is spooky season

If you’re not getting security updates then any savings may well be a false economy

Speak for yourself, that’s 7 years of GrapheneOS support! What phone do you use which you think is squeaky clean?

Come on man, let that shit die with Reddit!

You can still use them with GadgetBridge if Rebble ever goes away too!

the first good wearable computer ever made

That’s an opinion and a half! People might consider it collectable but they’re not exactly rare.

This is the most defeatist attitude I’ve ever seen