How does this compare to Revolt?

It’s honestly kind of amazing that it lasted so long in the first place

Mastodon’s main dev isn’t really open. Have a look at the “Ego” part of this article

That article was over 5 years ago now. I would expect that there has been massive change now that Mastodon is way more popular, and the project is way more involved. Also, blocks and mutes do work now.

but the Fediverse as a whole.

FWIW video playback on Mastodon has been seamless for me.

Hooray! There’s some really good stuff in this update. Can’t wait until my instance upgrades and hopefully it won’t break my current apps too much.

I was thrown off by the new icon, but I like it! Thanks for making the best Lemmy app.

I’ve already heard of people using Termux to host services on their old phones. Seems to work well.

0.19 is out?

See https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser

The TL;DR is that while the browser is technically fine, the people that own it are really fishy and are always trying to turn a profit, whether it be pushing crypto or discussing having their own ad network. They also use Chromium which means Google can slowly push things into it. You should use Firefox with Ublock Origin and tune the browser settings for privacy. There are also forks of Firefox tuned for privacy but I don’t think most people need it.