I refuse to use services that demand you use their app.

Services only need a website for the most part, not only is this easier for development cost but it is simplier to create a mobile friendly website instead of creating an Android app, iOS app and a desktop app.

Gitea and Forgejo are the way to go. Especially Forgejo which is working on federation just like Lemmy but for Forgejo repos and instances.

If the roommate suggested an alternative messenger that was privacy minded like Matrix , then that is cool.

The roommate is a idiot or a dick for saying Signal sucks and suggests spyware instagram.

If you do not have instagram, do not get it. If you have instragram, delete it.

Just like Microsoft office users, stop buying office and just download LibreOffice.

Tiktok is digitial media, the attention span is the issue, not the media format.

I know a few people who admitted to me without me even probing them that they cannot handle watching or listening to a video over 1 minute long.

I am not for censoring Tiktok, however I will never used it since its horrible on privacy and has "back doors" to a powerful and malicious government. And I like videos that are long with good discussion or information.

Thanks for only banning the communities and not the entire instance as a whole. That is a much healthier approach to deferation.

Newpipe has been good for years.

Not much to gain except more privacy and fully open source. A downside is there are less extensions available since it gets extensions from Open VSX Registry. Also there are extensions out there that are not good for privacy.

I still think VSCodium is worth it however.

Does this mean we will see 512GB internal phone storage becoming mainstream for low end phones?

I hate propietary apps that are just services or stores and especially when they refuse to have a website and make you download their app.

I do not need 200 apps on my phone. Just one web browser app will do.

Never use a closed source keyboard app. It can read what you send for messages, websites you go to, search engine queries.

Dont forget the fact most stores refuse to hire the staff needed to run the place smoothly. Why pay eight cashiers hourly wages when you can just have two cashiers?