the app in question was

1. on Apple App Store
2. for Vision Pro

so your alternatives might not be the best fit here.

ITT: omg how other people don't see what I, a very smart and superior person who browses technology communities, have known for years

we should be celebrating that privacy issues are gaining more and more mainstream coverage.

any other instance allowing all the racist, homophobic and transphobic shit that gets posted on Threads would be unanimously defederated by the biggest players on the Fediverse, and blasted all over the network under the fediblock hashtag, but Meta somehow gets the pass because... more number mean gooder?

again?

*checks the article's date"

ah. I was hoping for some further development.

you might wanna name it something different than Matrix, a decentralised messaging protocol.

it's the only OEM-independent, RCS-compatible app for now, so it's not like you can work around it by installing another client.

oooooh we could call it Lenny

It’s solid proof there always hearing us.

there was actually a study performed a few years ago that didn't find any evidence for several thousand tested apps to listen on you (some of the scummy ones were caught recording screens, on the other hand). also, the company mentioned in the posted article admits that their claims were exaggerated.

also why the fuck does Lego Fortnite require anticheat? it's a survival co-op, there's no competitive element, and yet from what I've read it still kicks you out when you're trying to play it on Linux.

if it's not available via RSS then it's not a podcast, it's an audio show.

Starting with this build, Microsoft will no longer

gosh, if only.

good.