Yes, they are less prevalent due to Reddit and other social media sucking up a lot of the users.
They are still around though. One Australian forum that I’ve been on for years which is still very active is Whirlpool. Started as a tech forum and expanded. It’s very useful as source of info as it’s been around over 20 years and a lot of questions have been asked and answered there.
Nice! Took me to a site full of movie themes in midi format👌🏻
I got sick of subscriptions, so I got Affinity Photo 2 for iPad as it was a reasonably priced one time purchase.
I cannot recommend it highly enough. I made a post about it here:
Most things I do on it can be done as well or better elsewhere.
However, I really like Photo editing on my iPad Pro using the Apple pencil.
It’s now my preferred platform for that.
Yeah, I’m only keeping it because of the grandfathered deal. If they scrap that I’ll just cancel and save the money. Better in my pocket than Google’s!
I’m relying on some of you folks to do a “trial” for me and let me know. Your efforts are appreciated 😛
Yes, Connect For Lemmy had this.
Damn, that did a disturbingly good job of sounding like the real deal 😮
Thanks!
Yeah, that’s what I use for close to 100% of my payments since about 2020.
I guess losing your phone or running out of battery are the limitations with that. Not often a problem admittedly.
Yeah, that’s not likely sadly.
It’s weird these numbers are so small, it should feel dead. But there are a lot of great discussions and a lot of good laughs to be had here.
The level of engagement for the very small numbers here must be quite impressive.
I guess it’s the old quality vs quantity.
I think it would then delete any account in both Instagram and Threads.
But there’s no need to do that. If you already have Instagram and your happy with it, there’s nothing extra you need to worry about just because there’s a shadow account pre set up for you in Threads.
It’s a shady way for them to push their new service, but it’s not like they suddenly have any more info on you than they already had.
My starting assumption is that almost everything I read online is either misrepresented or totally untrue.
If I don’t recognise the source I assume there’s a high chance it’s bullshit. If I recognise the source well, I still assume there’s a chance it could be inaccurate.
Very clever!
5 billion downloads on the Play store. Apparently about 1-2 billion of those are not very active. Still huge numbers though.
Yes, but in this instance, they are allowing people to pre-follow that shadow account and then apparently you get a notification to say they have followed you promoting you to join and follow them back.
That’s a very cunning way to boost their new service quickly!
I’m relieved they’re not doing that with WhatsApp.
Does that person who has been pre-followed then get a notification to join and respond/follow back?
Because that would be a great way to boost the new service exponentially.
Hey, don’t give them any ideas!
I’ve never had a Facebook or Instagram account in my life. But I do use WhatsApp because it’s the main way most friends and family communicate (Australia).
I would not be happy if I found out I suddenly had a Threads account that my friends could follow without me even signing up, just because I use WhatsApp!
Some forums are still reasonably active. I use Whirlpool fairly regularly. Mostly tech related, but has lots of other sections too.
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/
If you search around you can find others.