I was surprised to read that a country in South Europe mainly used Viber. I'm not European but I'm almost definite that WhatsApp has the largest market share for chat apps in all of Europe. Maybe Telegram coming a close second

What kind of safety reasons rule out OSS for you?

For those of us that live in the West African tropics, we just settle on how many bites we can tolerate per night lol. Some people apply agricultural pesticides (active ingredient Bifenthrin) down their waste water pipes once a month to ameliorate.

Looks really nice. First auto I got was a Seiko from my dad. Makes it my most desired brand

Neat piece of software we use at the office to provide remote support to customers.

It does take a while to get the hang of Mastodon, especially if you come with a Twitter mindset expecting some algorithm to push Content to your timeline. Once you start following the Hashtag and topics that interests you, then the "power" of mastodon comes to the fore

That's assuming they are an Android user

On the continent, we are super sceptical of Bill Gates

So there's some "incorrect" assumptions you have made about the North American summer, and weather in Africa. In the North American summer, only North Africa experiences summer with you guys. The rest of the continent is blanketed in rains (West, Central and East Africa) or are in outright winter (Southern Africa). So our temperatures do come down in your winter. Your coldest months are our hottest months for most of the continent (except for North Africa). So saying the developed parts of Africa

Servers with "lower" entry requirements have been infested with bots. Those with "higher" entry requirements are breaking ties (defederation) with these "lower requirement" lemmy servers

Been on Reddit for 4 years. Almost exclusively used the official app. I was completely irritated by the ads disguised as posts. @ChristianSelig posts about the API drama and I tried out a few of the 3PAs. What in the name of God was I ever doing on the official app?

Are you able to host without a domain name? Looking to spin up one to see what the install process feels like before I spin up a production instance