Just happened to me today (not for the first time) when I questioned somebody’s idiotic meme with a post that just said “What is this slop?” which was apparently worthy of removal. Even mild criticism is not ok with them because their bubble is very, very thin.

It’s fine, whenever it happens it reminds me to block the community and the author. I recommend you do something similar to make Lemmy a nicer place to be.

I know better than to engage with those… people. But sometimes I don’t notice the domain on the community I’m reading from the All feed. Wish there was a way to just hide everything from those instances on my feed (without standing up my own instance).

My understanding is there’s a licensing fee for another company to say they have an ‘android’ phone.

That part doesn’t matter to me. I ran de-Googled custom ROMs on my phones for many years, including cyanogenmod and later Lineage, only to find out they were tracking all of us against our will (and device settings) all along. That was the last straw for me.

Glad I abandoned Google 7 years ago when they made it obvious what they were really all about. I do miss my customized Android phones but it’ll be a frozen day in hell before I give them another cent.

A lot of them probably remember what appeasing Nazis leads to and don’t want to fund their own antagonist.

Hell yeah. Getting older doesn’t mean you have to lose your youthfulness. It’s more a state of mind!

I have some Star Wars Action Fleet ships that a girlfriend gave me for Christmas almost 30 years ago. They sit on my computer desk and I mess with them, moving landing gear and weapons around, when I’m really bored.

I have no idea what they are worth. Probably not much. Wouldn’t care if they were. I like playing with my toys even though I’m almost 50. :D