It doesn’t have traffic data, which is probably the biggest disadvantage. The maps are user contributed, so the quality varies widely. Depending on where you are, it’ll be ridiculously detailed with individual bushes in a park, or it’s incorrect or outdated and you can’t find your destination. I usually use this or OSMand, but I still keep google maps on another profile as a backup.

For android I tend to like Safe Notes. It’s relatively simple, encrypted with either passphrase or biometrics, and stored locally, with a way to back up to a file. Just make sure you memorize/save the passphrase so you don’t lose your entries. It’s android only though, if that matters. I only use it for shorter stuff, so I’m not sure how well it works for longer entries.

There’s been people trying to push ⁂ as a way to represent the fediverse using a unicode symbol. I’m not sure it’s really taken off, but it’s an option.

It happens sometimes. Depending on the details, you can report them as spam, just remove the follow, or ignore it.

In some cases it could also be people that genuinely want to follow you. People often talk about one topic but still care about other stuff.

A lot of instances block it. You can check the moderated servers section on your instance about page to see if it’s blocked.

Meta does a terrible job moderating, so it can a massive amount of extra work dealing with shitty people from there. They also have policy agreements to collect your data if you federate with them.

That’s monthly right? It’s a slight exageration, but that’s close to low end used car payments. And from what I understand it’ll go up as bluesky gets more popular, and the more relays there are.

It’s designed so other relays need to handle every message sent on all of bluesky, so server costs would be way too high for most people. Like car prices for minimal bluesky relay setup, and way more if you want to actually store all the messages you’re processing.

You can make anything terrible with enough money.

@helloyanis@jlai.lu made a browser addon for this.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/lemmy-language-memorizer/

They separated pretty far back, so they’re about equally related to jackals, dogs, wild dogs, various wolf species, and coyotes.

Ancient DNA is pretty degraded, so it’s hard to get an exact number. It’s estimated they diverged more than 5 million years ago, so it’s probably hundreds or thousands of different genes.

wikipedia article

Scientists rewrote 14 key genes in gray wolf EPC cells to express 20 dire wolf traits meaning that “no ancient dire wolf DNA was actually spliced into the gray wolf’s genome.”

It’s still impressive, but they only changed 14 genes. These are much more wolf than dire wolf.

They’re not browsers, but if you want lemmy in the terminal there’s Neon Modem Overdrive, which also handles Discourse forums and some other sites. For emacs there’s lem.el.

There’s also clauses about revoking your license if you try to sue them, and how you need to still include the system to pay them in your modified version.

I’m pretty sure most screen readers and stuff like copy/paste would also get whatever nonsense you filled it with.

A lot of the ways they scrape documents are the same used by accessibility tools, so I’d generally recommend against doing this.

I just want to add that it’s not just the idea of gender being immutable, it’s identity as a whole. So much of society is built around stuff like legal names. They use them to track and control people. And then trans people are out there deciding to change them just because we want to, or using prefered names that don’t match our legal names. The idea that people can just decide who they want to be is threatening to them.

I haven’t seen anything quite like that yet, but for federated music there’s bandwagon.fm which is more of a bandcamp equivalent. There’s a lot of fediverse projects, so it wouldn’t suprise me if there’s something out there.

For now that was just a bot mirroring posts. I don’t think they’ve said whether they’ll use that going forward.

Plenty of people still know or use the other meanings, and it’s still based on common stereotypes. Reclaiming slurs only really works when it’s done by the targeted group, and when the word is being used with positive connotations.