maybe you can tag Teresa Ribera (the acting European Commissioner for Competition) on Mastodon about it, sometimes they reply with a class-action lawsuit against the corpo, for real
On the point of Android, I also noticed somewhat of a trend: some banking apps cannot run on LineageOS for instance, probably because it’s rooted or idk the true reasoning behind the company’s policy.
No idea, but I tried inviting some my friends which are not tech-aficionados — they couldn’t understand it.
I’d love to see more money thrown on Ads for promoting the fediverse on YouTube, Twitch and all other platforms and get this shit more viral, but I don’t understand why it’s not happening.
I think there are more reasons, but the most prominent ones are
the fediverse is not that aggressively publicized
if by any luck your average bob joins, he’ll be confused because
a) the UI/UX is less appealing
b) he doesn’t know where to go and what’s the difference between Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy etc.
to continue the story: so, he was released in the wilderness and the other 2 spiders saw him all clean and posh that decided to beat him up and mug him.
IMO RCS was a diversion put up by Google against Apple but I’m not sure what was the exact reason behind it.
Not even using RCS right now with anyone, worst thing I can do with my friends is chat on WhatsApp if they don’t have iPhones and I doubt RCS‘s popularity in the 🇪🇺
