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It is yes, but there is an (unrelated) Android client called Jerboa if that is the OS you use.

I would very much like the Apollo developer to do this but possibly he's burnt out on social media and would like to work on something else. He has developed a series of other unrelated apps that make him a decent income also.

I expect it's accurate to say; their architecture is not like a database where you can add an index on a blocked state and then join against it. You have to get a list of potential posts that the user might want to see and then eliminate any in the block list. There will be a few edge case users who have thousands of block entries and a multithreading strategy is likely required to swiftly filter it in a reasonable timeframe.

However, an architecture I've seen that works around this is to build this timeline in the background and present it to the user from a cache, I don't know if this is what Twitter does as I never worked on that. However, if you want to not have a block feature but have some kind of mute feature anyway I don't see how there is a meaningful difference.

Haha, that's a throwback to the days when I helped to manage a phpBB board and there were a few members that would just continuously get into arguments so I edited the database so both of them had each other on their block list. It was very telling when I discovered they unblocked each other a few weeks later and got back to arguing and derailing thread topics.

I've been thinking about this joke for a while and don't feel I understand it. I expect there is a double meaning or a cultural saying that is lost on me, please can you explain it?

I like the Hacker News compromise - you have downvotes only after your account is a certain age and karma, and you can't downvote responses to your comments.

There is an android and iOS app available for Lemmy. Please see here: https://join-lemmy.org/apps/

Furthermore the mobile web app is quite nice too.

Precisely, the microblogging format really doesn't resonate with me. I don't feel I have anything necessarily good to announce to the world, but I enjoy a conversation or the invitation to share my own experience with something.

Furthermore it was quite computationally expensive. Modern CPUs have special instructions to work with AES and other algorithms, but back then it had to be done with individual instructions and with slow clock speeds.

Do upvotes and downvotes federate similarly? If so, how does the protocol prevent vote rigging?

Because if you can just communicate around a walled garden, what’s the point or value in staying in one?

Because people are happy with that garden and don't think about others. Please remember that your average internet user doesn't really know what an API is, or understand about open standards, they just want to find some content that matches their interests, upvote and share said content with their friends who are also inside that garden.

This average user isn't a bad person, stupid or naiive, they just have other things going on in their lives and the internet is a small part of it. They use it, take what they want from it and move on, and there are so many more of those people than you.

People who switch from iOS to Android report losing friends who were on iMessage and are unwilling to move to something platform agnostic such as Signal or WhatsApp. I wouldn't underestimate the walled garden effect.

As a migrant from Digg to Reddit back in the paleolithic era, I would have said the same of Reddit, the UI really wasn't good compared to Digg. People got used to it in time.

I also remember a time when it wasn't clear if people would want to shop online, and a debate about whether email could really replace letters, or if people would find it too complicated.

People will come to the fediverse if we give them a reason to.

How does that differ to Twitter or Reddit?