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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Telegram has had crypto focus since ~2020, to the point of spamming me in chats with “sponsored” (official!) messages to buy their shady token a couple of years ago, and spawning a grey market to buy and sell usernames with crypto auctions.

    Signal tried including an own crypto token for in-app psyments as well (of this bunch, it’s the only company I have some compassion for - they need to make money somehow, and didn’t want to compromise the core model) but the backlash was insane and they either hid it really deep in the app, or just gave up entirely



  • Similar here lately :)

    I don’t use socials apart from occasionally Mastodon (which is interestingly not addictive, thanks to the chronological/honest UX!) and Insta, which I open in the browser to check what people write me and log out from afterwards.

    I also use YT in the browser, because the app is such an offensive blend of addiction patterns. Sadly Chrome for Android (willingly?) removed Chromecast support from web-based YT (…it was there years ago, iirc?)

    Also, I disabled notifications for non-urgent apps, and took a redundant online/offline approach to essential things (e.g. calendar, notes and so on) to be sure I don’t need to pull out my phone all the time. Nonetheless, I find myself using it a lot more than it used to be, which is quite sad