I assume it got worse because lenovo bought the smartphone division of Motorola years ago. Back then, yeah they were the bomb. I still look back fondly of my Moto Z Play. Its astounding what they did with it. Such “paltry” specs but it ran like a champ. Bloat from future android versions and moto getting acquired by lenovo put it down sadly.

I have a feeling that was pre Mozilla pocket offering a deal to kobo.

But hopefully I’m wrong and rakuten kobo will integrate with another service.

I’m coming to the same conclusion. I have long migrated back to Instapaper (not related to Meta’s Instagram of anyone doesn’t know about it). And the only distinction saving to that vs bookmarks and raindrop, is that I save articles more often than not. And raindrop have a reader mode as well iirc.

And I don’t really go back to read all the articles I saved in instapaper that frequently. Might as well just drop that too, and just use raindrop (or linkwarden when I get around to trying Linux and self hosting).

That’s true. I did that for years when I stopped using Firefox even after using containers a bit. Forgot why I stopped before. Now I’m glad to be back on Firefox, and especially for containers.

If I’m going to get a handheld, I’m kind of torn between these two for some reason.

idk why

the screen hoopla shouldn’t have happened in the first place if they just ignore the 4:3 purists :P

constantly logging out/in and getting MFA prompts gets old.

that or even an account switcher like google does, still gets old lol

somehow I missed easy container shortcuts. thanks!

Figured pretty much everyone would do that

Yeah, already have their facebook container. But I believe they already have the function to allow a container to only open the sites I assign it to. So like their Facebook container, any links I click not of the sites it’ll just open in no container.

The cross site tracking is the lower of my concerns practically. It’s signing in to my multiple Google accounts without having to change accounts is my main goal.

No, that app won’t be usable with piefed. It’s a different software so to speak and apps have to support it.

short, are there any advantages of the fediverse for people who don’t have a problem with centralization?

hey, that’s me. It’s just another social media platform for news, memes and information for me

The onboarding for piefed is huge as well. So easy to kickstart your own feed.

A lot of things in life are improved once you excise the FOMO mind cancer.

On the hate of Bluesky here from what I understand: it’s just another twitter masquerading being open with almost impossible to run federation backenf if you’re not some big rich organization that will enshittify and it’s not mastodon

1. “Balwisyall nescell gungnir tron”

2. “Zetsuboshita! This money grubbing world has left me in despair.”

What I think can help with a unique problem of the Fediverse—accessing content from other instances via your home piefed instance—being built in to piefed somehow instead of relying on browser extensions that still doesn’t support non Lemmy clients and instances

I love the deduplication feature on piefed. It’s great

I also love that it has custom multi-comm feeds like subreddits. I still haven’t made one for myself though, since the default topics — multi-comm feeds as well — already works quite well.

Those two, combined with their onboarding process, I think makes it the better “platform” to get new users IMO

It helps with having a handholding experience to jumpstart a new user, and not make it as “dead” looking or having to suffer All with American politics posts

I tried Lemmy way back when the APIcalypse happened but it never stuck.

I tried again earlier this year because of something happening again at reddit and decide to also try mbin because of built in support for microblogs. Turns out I still don’t care about microblogs if everyone that I follow on X isn’t here. It’s also “just another Lemmy” but with microblog support in my short term using it

Them I decided to finally try piefed. Ever since I created this account it’s been my main and never accessed my LW, lemmyzip, fedia and kbinearth accounts again lol

Interstellar is testing it. @franklaskey@lemmy.ml

ngl, i like uaing piefed on a browser

I can open multiple posts in background tabs and I can get back to them as when I want to

It kind of makes me not minding piefed doesn’t have many apps supporting it

And the sidebar in mobile view is way at the bottom of the page

Just in case someone forgot the rules of a comm and posted a rule breaking post like me :P