Make it open source and searchable, and they could fuck up society.

Do it yourself then

I have good (I hope) UI skills, as in, I am good at designing good looking frontends. How do I apply to design the join.lemmy page?

They most likely used the chatGPT API, going on the comment that refused to generate inappropriate content.

It looks incongruous with Android’s design, but I still like it. It’s nice to have variety.

I’m doing the same but with Firefox

I hope you consider an open news alternative, or even a closed one slightly less bad than Apple. Good for you for not using Reddit though.

I fear that sounded too condescending, I seriously want to encourage you to not use Apple without making you sound like an idiot.

I don’t think you are an idiot, just the same as the other millions of people who were taken in by Apple’s ‘privacy’ and ‘simplicity’, while not realising the price gouging, right to repair smashing, closed source, keeping everything ensnared its ecosystem that it really is.

There are unfortunately not enough people that hold this opinion, too many are trigger happy on defederating from those they don’t like.

Like you say, there can be some legitimate reasons, such as bot servers, and I would add if a big company created an instance to take it over and kill the federation.

But too many simply do it because they disagree with what the people in an instance are saying, and that hurts the federated nature of the fediverse.

I thought they were talking about how what goes around comes around /s