There are literally, not exaggerating, over one billion Instagram accounts in existence. It’s self-evidently not the case that they have just silently registered everybody a Threads account and are counting those numbers.

Yeah, they can vote and reply and all of that and others who remain federated will see their interactions, but you or any other server who defederates them won’t.

Yeah, my understanding is that defederation prevents any incoming communication, so you won’t see any posts or comments that come from lemmy.bullshit, however users from lemmy.bullshit will still see all of your comments and posts from lemmy.world unless they choose to defederate you back.

The linked page specifically tracks Lemmy, although it’s not clear to me whether it’s tracking posts by users from Lemmy instances or posts to Lemmy instances, which is a medium-sized distinction (the latter would include kbin, Mastodon and other Fediverse users who are posting to Lemmy from their home instance, while the former would obviously include only Lemmy users).

Step 1: Commit crimes.

I know I’m super boring, but I personally never liked see-through cases. I’m not techy enough for any of the hardware to mean anything to me, so it just looks like robot guts. Occasionally I’ve had to take controllers apart for cleaning or replacing membranes, but while it was fun seeing the insides, I wouldn’t want it all day.

I know there was some occasional friction between the fans on the old site, but I’ll also throw in a recommendation for The Orville as modern Trek that’s worth seeing. It does a great job capturing the spirit of the second-gen era presented for the current gen, with its cautious optimism pricked once a week by reminders of challenges yet to be resolved.

The first season is slightly rough (more proof it’s a real Trek show?), as they figured out the ratio of comedy to drama, but by season three it’s about as jokey as TNG. Fox did a bad job promoting it, it’s definitely not Family Guy in space, which I think was probably what the network wanted it to be.

There’s tons of Trek people both behind and in front of the camera, so while there’s obviously no ties to the Trek canon, it’s the closest anything has ever come, stylistically.

Looks more like 17 minutes after launch.

I actually forgot that it’s more complicated than I made it seem, that’s on me. Firefox does make it pretty difficult to add unsupported extensions.

First off, it’s not possible on the stable Firefox Android; officially, it’s a feature that’s currently only available in the Beta or Nightly Firefox branches, which are provided as separate apps in the Google Play Store (or wherever you get your apps). Personally, I’d recommend the Beta build over the Nightly since it’s less likely to have severe bugs. Even if you’re just using Firefox Android “normally” and don’t need it for this purpose, I still think the Beta is an improvement over the stable version because it enables access to less user-friendly parts of the Firefox interface like the about:config page, where you can mess around under the hood. Alternatively, you could use Fennec F-Droid, which is a fork of current Firefox Android which supports the same feature.

If you want to personally pick and choose which extensions you’re able to install, there’s a solid guide to the whole process you can follow, but you need to register a Mozilla account, create a custom add-on collection and add all of the addons you want to that list, then switch from Firefox’s official approved extension list to your personal custom one, at which point you can start installing any of the addons from your list.

If that’s more of a hassle than you’re prepared to deal with, you could use somebody else’s ready-made custom add-on collection to skip out the part about registering an account and building your collection. You don’t have to trust me if you don’t want, but I just put together a collection of all the officially supported Firefox Android extensions plus Stylus, which you can see here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/17632282/Plus-Extras/

To add this or your own custom collection to Firefox Beta/Nightly/Fennec, you’ll need to

• open to the three dots menu in the browser (next to the address bar)
• open Setting
• scroll all the way down to “About Firefox Beta” or similar and open it
• tap on the “Firefox Browser” logo/text 5 times
• hit back
• scroll back up a little bit to the new (!) Custom Add-on collection button
• enter your custom collection, e.g. 17632282 and Plus-Extras if you want to use my setup from above
• press OK, the browser will now restart

The next time you go to the Add-ons page and forever until you change it (you can make both fields empty to go back to Firefox’s official list), it will populate the available plugins list from there instead of Firefox’s.

Same situation here. Firefox PWAs are already frameless and full screen. Your Firefox extensions remain active within PWAs, so you can use your ad blockers, user CSS or JS, etc. The only feature from that list that Firefox seems to be missing is any way to add bookmarks.

For me, it felt really easy to leave because I had zero social connections on Reddit. I’m not sure if I’m the weird one, but I never learned any individual users’ names or felt ways about stuff, except in the rare case that they became a meme, like shittymorph. I was there for like 12 years and nothing tied me to it. Moving to the threadiverse was as easy as changing a bookmark.

No, it’s just saying “I won’t come into your room.” They can still go anywhere they want.

Semi-related, Wikipedia discussion pages used to be left blank, with a red link, unless there was actually discussion there. Now every article has a boilerplate article quality scale rating template, a notice about when to use or not use the discussion page, etc. pasted onto the talk page as soon as it’s created. I miss seeing a rare blue talk page link and going “I wonder what weird stuff people are saying in the talk page for Alex Kidd in Shinobi World.”

Reddshirts.