at that point it’s fuckin personal

don’t forget your microscope

I’m excited about mwmbl, a search engine with a novel user-curation approach to search ranking. Currently it’s in alpha, and frankly, not good enough to be daily-driven. But you can change that! While I don’t really use the engine, I make sure to use their crawler extension and script to passively help the index.

Actually, just this once, I think there’s already enough pixels on my screen. Maybe even too many pixels.

This isn’t just a Frendica thing; you can see this from Mastodon, mbin/kbin, etc. Many people seem to think upvotes and downvotes are private, but the reality is that they’re publicly available information by default in ActivityPub. Lemmy just hides the information on the front-end for “normal” users; If you’re a moderator you can clearly see everything.

If one wants truly pseudonymous voting, they’re free to try out PieFed. See the announcement post for this feature for more details.

You asked for my opinion on these ROMs, so I’m telling my perspective. I’ve said nothing about your usage. If you find Android satisfactory, then good for you ¯\(ツ)/¯

Also, my point was that I agree with the fact that Android is great; but I do not like it as using it empowers Google to develop their other, less “great” projects.

android was not made by google

While that is true, it is of little relevance. That’s like saying “Elon did not ‘make’ Twitter. Thus using it does not promote Musk.”

no one can change my mind

That was not my intention at all! You are entitled to your opinion, just as I am entitled to mine.

it is the best operating system ever

I see you’ve not recieved the light of TempleOS ;P
On a more serious note though, I do agree that unfortunately (imo) Android has no viable alternatives. Hence the opinion, “everything sucks”.

While I do think these projects are awesome, they are based on Android. Even though Google has done a legitimately great job with Android, supporting Android (even indirectly) means I’m also supporting Google’s other, more predatory products and endeavors.

Also, if tomorrow Google starts enshittifying upstream, these projects would likely stop; such is their fragility.

This chart doesn’t represent me lol

Favorite OS: “everything sucks”
Favorite browser: “everything sucks”
Favorite Apps: mpv and rtorrent (I pirate a lot of media)