This kinda app would need at least an attempt at a technical solution to the bot problem. An open source app can’t just pay people to kick bots out. And even the paid apps that can are drowning in bots.
Something cryptographic maybe. Tor is kinda magical, makes anonymity possible while the each machine knows who they are talking to. Maybe something where you can show that you are “a verified user” without showing exactly which one.
I have a few (internal) web pages like that at work, they do the job but yes they are ugly
Have you ever seen HTML without CSS? It’s ugly as hell
I think the better comparison (whether that’s technically accurate or not) is to HTML + CSS + JS. Which is overly complicated for just small blogs and personal webpages etc. I think that’s the “issue” Gemini is trying to solve.
They are called digital audio players / DAPs nowadays. Theres a wide variety of them. Also you can also buy a used ipod or a sony walkman. I use an iPod nano, though that’s would be a bit of a hassle without macos.
The modded ipod classics are kinda cool, larger storage and open source software. And no bluetooth if you are concerned about that.
It is really easy to mirror git repos though, which makes this less of an issue than most other monopolies
Gamers are a bit more tech savvy than average people tho
The other option is that anybody who recommends Lemmy, actually just recommends an instance. Make an account on examplelemmyserver.org and download the app XYZ should be the go-to recommendation. Not ”there are so many cool options”.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=48 The monthly stats don’t look too bad to me. The yearly stats are meaningless.
I’m not sure if the centralization is worse than the large portion of users on the large servers who joining copies of established communities on their own instances. Also, from my other reply:
It would force you to write a more descriptive name. Maybe we want to hide by community title and not the handle though.
Say you want to have a community for memes. It is terrible UX if you just see seven different “[email protected]” in the result. So with an opinionated search, you instead name your community Sopuli Memes, Solarpunk Memes, Programming Memes etc., or just Funny Memes Archive, and they would not be hidden.
It would force you to write a more descriptive name. Maybe we want to hide by community title and not the handle though.
Say you want to have a community for memes. It is terrible UX if you just see seven different “[email protected]” in the result. So with an opinionated search, you instead name your community Sopuli Memes, Solarpunk Memes, Programming Memes etc., or just Funny Memes Archive, and they would not be hidden.
IMO, a more opionate search would fix this. Just recommend the most active community and show the others in gray.
Only permanent solution is to stop using smartphones altogether
Even if you can’t, minimizing smartphone use, uptime and carrying mitigates some of the risk
There’s a million easier ways to claim the German unemployment money than that
A Git history would be quite an easy way to show that you are doing something regularly.
That ATM cash tracking thing comes to mind
I’ve survived 11 years of programming without ternary operators and prefer to keep it that way
The ai features are using you!
In all seriousness, I would be slightly suspicious about any closed source OS’s privacy, doubly so if they aggressively advertise AI. But we can’t know for sure, it might very respect your privacy in this situation.
AI-Powered Mobile OS
bruh
I mean I just took the users word for summarizing the thing accurately, but doesn’t seem too complicated to me https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/112036
Either way, it’s not about this specific idea. It’s just that you need some technical way to combat bots, be it cryptography, web of trust, subjective moderation etc. If it’s open source, there will not be enough volunteers to do moderation