Pre-ordering is dead, live paid alpha testing is booming. There are so many games in development (alpha or beta testing) which can be bought. And as soon as the game is in the ballpark of “finished” it get’s the v1.0 mark. And way before that, there are already DLC’s available for an unfinished game.

Man I hope this is the right call. Could be great that they will listen to the users more, but it could also be a quick downfall from here if they get pressure from the investors.

I had a task running which would scan all incoming calls on all SIM cards. It then checked the numbers for known contacts and if they are unknown it would check if they called multiple times. I made it because I was bothered by a lot of spam/scam callers. This task would block all notifications, vibrations and ringtones. So it didn’t bother me at all that they called.

Indeed. The front ends could be less or more “secure”/private. And by that I mean that I don’t know how the app themselves are with access and your data. So I don’t know if they collect and share any data and how reliable the developers are.

Indeed. Or otherwise Island as an alternative. Don’t know how those two compare on the security and privacy front.

You can put it in a work profile and trust that Android is protective enough to keep your data safe and access limited. Otherwise buy a second phone just to put WeChat on it. Don’t know how WeChat works, but if it’s like Whatsapp then you don’t need to bother with a secondary number.

Holy crap, that’s bad. They certainly need to make it one behemoth app for all these permissions to be legit. But otherwise, why do they think people want to use Threads so bad that they agree to use all this. (apparently already 10 million people, if these numbers are legit and not bloated due to link with instagram).

Yes you can. You can use the “work” profile and/or use Island (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.island) to install multiple versions of an app.