I don’t think we can call it a trend anymore, shit hasn’t changed for a few years, not having an headphone jack is the norm and having one can now be a selling point for a phone

Not if signal doesn’t want to support WhatsApp, and I don’t think they’re going to unfortunately :(

Yep I’ll definitely going to build one some day but I already have a bit too much trackballs for it to be sane.

Revive the Trackball Explorer you cowards

Well I guess I’ll just pay back all the debt I got as an inheritance

Direct message, I think it mainly comes from twitter where you could add a “d” before someone’s @ to message them, maybe the use of “direct” instead of “private” was to avoir the confusion with private accounts?

Honestly mastodon works better than I expected with instances but Reddit was really the perfect candidate for the fediverse. You subscribe to communities which are independently managed and you avoid any contact with communities that seems harmful to you. Don’t care where the community is hosted, you just want the content