On notifications if Google play services is not installed unless the app let's you configure another server to use in place notifications won't work that use Google Play services installed on the back end.

If sandboxed Google play services is installed, assure it has the neccisiary permission to run in the background (unrestricted battery and network) access. Not just the individual apps, but the google apps specifically as Graphene installs thegoogle stuff with standard permissions.

Same goes for apps that run in the background. If you expect them to be running in the background to auto update or perform another function then it needs to be permitted in the battery settings. Background updates may also rely on Google Play services.

Edit: to clarify I haven't experienced any issues myself that weren't directly related to my decision to not use sandboxes google play services (no push notifications) despite daily driving for years. It's a particularly old and reliable project in the privacy space, and while I'm sorry you experienced issues that doesn't make it an unstable project not ready as a daily driver (any more that somebody having issues with Windows/Linux makes those unstable and not ready to be daily driven).

I've been hearing a lot about much heavier blocking and opt in federation. If I were to predict how it all ends up, I see 10-100k users on a small group of servers siloing themselves, and the rest of the fediverse remaining as is. Or even opening up more than it is currently as the loudest people calling for it silo themselves away from the rest of the fediverse.

I won't say that one particular model is against anything or wrong, the point of free software is the freedom to use it in the manor preferred and if people get value from a walled garden then more power to them. Just not for me.

On mobile, I may actually be using libredirect and just misremembered the name, or I might be due for an update. Thanks

There's already a number of countries trying implement news site link taxes, I wouldn't be surprised if they just gave up and decided to cut that out.

Librewolf with Ublock + privacy redirect

Those who don't believe in autocorrect will go strait to he'll

Those who don't believe in autocorrect will go strait to he'll

Sometimes it's just because the lawyers who wrote TOS grab as much leeway as they can, even if it's just to make a translation.

The reason people are talking about this in such a negative light is because it did not occur in a vaccum. Nothing but mildly and moderately bad news over a swath of time adds up quickly. If there was no other bad news it could be written off, but this bad news bears the wight of all the other bad news as well.

rn not much. In the future there'll be properly portable accounts using cryptographic keys and once federation kicks in lighter servers making it probably more distributed.

Servo in future, LibreWolf for now imo

Gemini? The protocol equivalent to the cyber Amish?

Oh, Google stuff. Meh