It's that time again: the #iPhone anniversary. Time for us to remind you of the grave threat it and every mobile phone poses to your freedom. While there's no solution that fully respects your freedom, phones running #ReplicantOS come the closest: https://replicant.us
@bsletten@stevesilberman I opened an account on Post.News & it does have potential. Although with all of that venture capital I am surprised they have not launched corresponding #iPhone / #iPad / #Android apps.
Post News currently is a glorified link aggregator.
I think what separates #Mastodon from #Twitter is their emotional community engagement of choice: Mastodon seeks positive community engagement while Twitter seeks negative community engagement.
@roelfrenkema I looked at it, but without any native apps the site is not useful to me (especially when traveling or inside buildings with awful signal). Also, my friends & family would never join due to a lack of apps on #Android & #iPhone (which would nullify the purpose of me setting up an account).
#Friendica is powerful, but it still is niche due to the friction with non-techies.
The seasonal news that #WhatsApp will stop working on #iPhone 5 and below #Android 4.3 highlights how the lack of Web apps is a significant environmental problem. Phones become obsolete in part because they don’t get OS updates, and they become incompatible with compiled apps. A lightweight OS for old phones would be more feasible if it mainly had to have a solid Web browser that facilitated a proper selection of #ProgressiveWebApps (& if manufacturers made open drivers/docs). #PWA#PWAs
To see how this works, just consider Apple's record in #China. First, Apple removed all working #VPN apps from its Chinese App Store, to facilitate state spying on its Chinese customers:
Pretty incredible to see the #Mastodon app at the very top of the list of free apps in the iOS App Store here in ??. For reference, Twitter is currently #45.
Okay I didn't get a response from you on any of my questions there, so I went over there again and had a look for myself to see if anyone over there had actually gotten a clue and figured it out...
They did! ?
Truth social does now have a web interface where one can create an account now.
This is a new development in the last couple of months - there was no web access prior. That meant that both web based and #Android based users were effectively disenfranchised.
So, since it's #SoapBox-FE with a Mastodon backend, it also works just fine with
Prior to enabling the web interface for account creation, one would need to use an #iPhone to create an account, and then they could presumably use #Fedilab to access the site after that, with all the bells and whistles that affords the user, such as #scheduling of posts and favs, instant #translation, true #bookmarking, and tuning whether certain types of content should only be available over WiFi (to reduce data usage).
So.... ??? The weak link has been repaired :)
Kudos, to whomever it was that guy then to pull their heads out after all these months!
Last I checked, it was a #SoapBox frontend (pretty fricken' kewl), but no web access (WTF is sup wit dat, bitches?), And so I was unable to create an account.
And although there was an #Apple ? app, no such #Android beast.
Is that correct? And what kind of goofy logic is that where you can only access the site if you have an #iPhone?
I suppose i would have tried to use #Fedilab, i would suppose, but you need to already have an account to do that.
I know I'm not "missing out" on anything, but What am I missing here?