Have you got a more specific search term for Gemini? Unfortunately the word has been taken by Google

I was thinking more like an “Other” with a free input field

They really had the foresight not to add an “other” option. Says a lot

Ah yes that too is covered by Flutter/React Native.

I’m a react native and flutter dev. They’re very, very good for 90% of use cases. Even if you’re only developing for one platform, they’re actually quicker to get started on and be productive than native development, especially if you use something like Expo to get your app started as fast as possible. If you’re doing performance critical applications or need access to hardware other than the usual camera/Bluetooth/internet, then you probably are better off writing it natively but that describes a very small handful of real-world apps and you can always selectively write some parts in native code.

EDIT: Also I didn’t think it had to be said cause I thought Xamarin was basically dead but yeah, Xamarin sucks major ass.

Ur just mad that my stick can glow man

Right, whenever someone like Linus talks about developers he’s probably not referring to your run-of-the-mill code monkey making simple web apps.

I think a balance can be struck. Early internet ads didn’t have to watch you all across the internet. As far as I know DuckDuckGo ads are just old school keyword matches, too. Newspapers don’t feel the need to know the last 10 stores you visited. It’s this obsession with personalized, targeted ads that brings up all this spyware crap.

That’s a good analogy, it’s also way easier to describe this than fully explain Mastodon and the fediverse. If somebody’s looking to quit Twitter but they’re on the fence because they’re like “but I still need the info even if I don’t actively participate” you can just say “hey here’s an alternative until all that info can move, at least you won’t be directly supporting them and won’t be further contributing value by being tempted to participate” rather than “well all that stuff will move eventually”

Shitposting alone saves. Blessed is he who shitposts, more blessed is the one who has been shitposted upon. Shitpost save us all

I, as a mastodon user, will be able to follow my friends, celebrities, artists and interact with them when federation is activated

This is exactly what’s scary. You might wanna check out this blog post about Google and XMPP, which is another federated protocol. Google Talk used to support XMPP, to the point that so much of the XMPP user base were Google Talk users. Then, Google Talk started implementing Google Talk specific features that other XMPP clients did not support. Yes, it made Google Talk more feature rich, but it then made regular XMPP users out of the loop. Then, the final nail in the coffin was Google Talk dropping XMPP support. Suddenly everybody’s friends who were using XMPP to communicate just… went offline as far as GT users were concerned. Then of course, Google killed Google Talk. This is EEE (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) in a nutshell, and any time corporate interests enter projects like this, you’re at risk of this happening.

Don’t get me wrong, the fediverse could use some upgrades, more resources, more users. But I just don’t trust Meta to have the fediverse’s best interests at heart in the way. They’re a corporation, one of the biggest in the world, and they’ll only ever care about what benefits Meta.