specialwall

joined 7 months ago
[–] specialwall@midwest.social 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I was wondering how they would be able to run such an expensive service based on just one person's ad revenue:

Microsoft is also currently testing a limit of one hour for sessions, with up to five hours free a month

I just don't understand how Microsoft thinks someone is going to sit through minutes of ads and be okay with only 5 hours per month in return.

[–] specialwall@midwest.social 31 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Dumbphones are ridiculously insecure, and they only support SMS communications which don't have any end-to-end encryption.

[–] specialwall@midwest.social 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The AI Generated thumbnail is inexcusable. If that's a real recipe then they should take a picture of the real thing. 🙁

[–] specialwall@midwest.social 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There will be a six-month period when law enforcement will hand out warning tickets. Starting Jan. 1, 2026, the fines will be $100.

I'm glad that it's rightfully illegal now, but that seems like kind of a light consequence for endangering everyone around you.

[–] specialwall@midwest.social 10 points 6 months ago (6 children)

The thundermail domains are thundermail.com and tb.pro. I'm curious to see how they will compare to the top privacy-respecting email providers today, and how they think they will "provid[e] a better service than the other providers out there," which would include Protonmail, Tutanota, etc.

[–] specialwall@midwest.social 16 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I kind of have to sympathize with this commenter. Although I don't agree that federated social media is very difficult, it is definitely more confusing than normal social media. I would consider myself to be more technical than the majority of people, and even I had a confusing time switching from traditional social media to federated platforms.

If the goal is to have these platforms become more mainstream (which I would love to see personally), then there does need to be simpler ways to use them, or at least better, more concise explanations.