Don’t worry, Greg. They’re conservatives. They’re still gonna kill him. They just want to make sure he’s innocent first.

Interesting question, JD.

Here’s an extremely easy one. When in doubt, just knock on the goddamned door and talk with someone instead of kicking the door in, tossing flash-bangs and jamming rifles in people’s faces. Knock… and talk. SWAT shouldn’t be entering unless there’s a barricaded suspect.

Yep. I guess there are no other possible methods of conducting a police investigation than your suggested method. Pack it in, boys. Space Cowboy’s got it all figured out for us!

This is a bad faith straw-man argument that pretends there are no other options than what you’ve presented. Weak.

Hear, hear! Maybe conserve an oppressive power structure, conserve plans to harm humanity world-wide or conserve a backwards trajectory to a brutal, slave-based economy.

Conservatives gonna conserve.

I would. Apple has a long history of intentionally crippling its services on Firefox.

He’s not just wrong. He’s a conservative, which means he’s lying.

Nothing good in the history of mankind has ever come from conservatism. Nearly every major problem on earth is either caused or made much worse by the existence of conservatives.

This is what Lemmy is all about, right here. Just a good, honest nutsack taking a simple shit.

I’ve been using the Fairphone 4 for a few weeks now. The hardware is excellent in every way. I am coming from the most recent LG ThinQ which has higher specs than the Fairphone 4 on paper, but the Fairphone actually feels better to use. It’s much better than I expected.

I’ve been eyeing the Murena Fairphone 4 and I think I may go that route. Their OS is purpose built to de-Google, offering free competing services while still having access to the Play store. It seems like it might be a good way to do this for someone like me who doesn’t know what a bootloader is or why it should be locked.

I understand your “what if” scenarios, but this is an existential crisis that needs to be resisted against with all instances working in concert. This is not a “what if” scenario. This is the actual iceberg and it is big enough to ruin the fediverse for all instances, no matter their affiliation with the garden.

So, we either unite to defend the independence of the fediverse, or we let a corporate giant take it by ovewhelming us with their “important updates for your security” until we are all assimilated.

It makes me nauseous to say this, but I am now considering getting a goddamned iPhone just to avoid Google, trading one shitcorp for another shitcorp.

What other options are there to be de-Googled and avoid the app troubles OP is battling?

Well, I think Threads meets your litmus test requirements.

It is a certainty that Threads will heavily influence the future development of Activity Pub. This will inevitibly lead to the corporatization and enshittification of any service Threads can affect.

The only resistance we can offer against this is defederation and noncompliance with the will of the behemoth.

Be sure to tell us what happens what happens.