True, but w/ a caveat at the bottom:

At the end of the day, you have to remember that Apple devices are essentially a sealed unit. Any claims they make about privacy cannot be proven - they could slip tracking and keyloggers into every device, and unless you build a device from scratch and program it yourself, there’s nothing you can do about it. You have to trust that they won’t do that, and Apple is in a relatively unique position (particularly compared to google and facebook) in that the business isn’t designed to profit from this, so they have no real reason to do so.

Yeah I like it over Mastodon as well. The UI/UX feels more modern. The only downside is that the majority of the Twitter-alternative fediverse is on Mastodon, so I have to run 90% of accounts through 'search' to follow them.

The article does touch on some of the main instance's issues towards the bottom too I just found out.

ahhh a pormanteau lol, I like it

Way to go Cali!

Same. I do have gnome on my laptop and the terminal was lacking relative to my KDE desktop, so I ended up making the switch there too

Webcord is an alternative front-end solution that is more privacy-orientated.

Definitely feels like OP is describing a physical book. I supposed the nature of tech/humanity is to go full circle at times

Wasn't he an informant on top of everything? Still gotta read the article to see if they mention that

I listen to a LOT of podcasts and their chemistry is unrivaled. It's popularity has made both of them 'go-to' sources for tech as of late and so they often get scoops/interviews on top of their banter as well.

Thank you for this. Just signed up myself and in terms of UI/UX, Calckey is to Mastodon what Kbin is to Lemmy... perhaps to an even greater degree

For me personally, it's the cleaner (stock) UI

Go to the settings, ping the instances, and add a handful with good ping.

I cycle through 3-4 instances using the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + Alt + L is the default but you can change it via your brower's extension settings) and usually find one that's up and running.