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@Ciaraioch I, for one, think it's healthy and a welcome turn of events that we all return to pre-industrial activities such as screaming into walls.

@worldsendless @thibaultamartin One common, and I think justified, critique is that it's much harder to find the people you want to follow on Mastodon.

One thing is the lack of algorithms suggesting which users to follow, another is that you can't even see a full list of users other people are following from their profile.

When arriving at Mastodon you start out in a bit of a void, while twitter is (a bit too) eager to suggest users to follow.

Curious to see how the #Republican party will handle a House majority after trumpism was rejected at the ballot.

Seems inevitable that the party gets torn between two extremes: Highly publicized (and loud) Trump loyalist on one side, more traditional Republican representatives who only care about reelection and are getting cold feet about trumpism as a tool in such regard on the other. Party elites like #McConnell in the midlde, trying to keep it all together.

Should be a mess. #midterms

@K_REY_C Not sure what the listed apps are, but have you tried Tootle? I'm using it on a HiDPI Fedora system, works like a charm for me. It's GTK4, so scales well and integrates very well with the system. Available on flathub. :)

@jburnmurdoch While comparing the Republican party to AfD and Front National is already not putting the GOP in a very favourable light, I think there's an issue of causality here.

In Europe, the mechanism is largely that people with anti-science believes vote for anti-science parties, as they reflect their attitudes. In the US, I fear this is reversed: People hold anti-science believes because they vote for an anti science party. This makes the harm caused by the GOP so much greater.

@sigsegv @najodleglejszy Ubuntu Touch development has been occupied for months now with mainlining dependencies and upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04, which is just now being rolled out as an alpha release. While the current version (based on 16.04) works fine, I think it could be worth waiting until a stable 20.04 release to take it for a spin. In either case it's a development worth watching!

@LinuxLounge Instagraph? I hardly ever use instagram on Android, partly because it keeps pushing third party content I'm not interested in rather than the people I actually follow. I had no idea third party apps were even possible - maybe I should check this one out!

@sigsegv I enjoy Etar as a calendar app, other than that I can second @najodleglejszy on a lot of apps like Organic Maps (especially great for hiking) and the Kiss launcher. Firefox is my browser of choice.

If you want to go the whole mile, #UbuntuTouch works great on the Fairphone 4 (with Android app support under a compatibility layer), and #postmarketOS is maturing fast for the device. So leaving Android behind entirely is a real possibility!

@omgubuntu According to Forbes, Disney is the 7th most valuable brand in the world. They're happily spitting out $15 million for a single episode of The Mandalorian. Yet, the best they can do is to produce this mess for a front-end for the whole thing?

Powerful example of the benefits of open source software.

@jesswade As a late stage PhD researcher in the social sciences, I hear more often that I should be using twitter more actively than that I should publish more often. Everybody expects one to use it for self promotion, and I find the whole thing impossible to get into - precisely because everybody is using it for self-promotion. I'm sure there are interesting conversations in there, but I gave up on finding them. It's all just lost in the flood.

@thibaultamartin @nixos_org Can't help but having "tech epiphany" remind me of xkcd 198.