I watch for the plot.
Avatar is a lemming in bed because this account wasn’t intended to be used except for creating communities… and then my instance announced it was closing.
I watch for the plot.
I AM HUMAN. I ASSIGNED MYSELF THIS USERNAME AS PROOF.


I don’t know if it uses that system, but NeoDB lets you sign in with a Mastodon account too. It’s also fully Mastodon compatible, so you can add it to a client and use it as a basic Mastodon/microblog account if you want. It uses (a modified version of?) Takahē on the backend, a project which sadly appears to have been abandoned.


In addition, you can interact with other services from one account, but not necessarily use them fully.
So as above ^^^ at least one account per service is advisable.
+1 for NetSurf, I wrote the Amiga GUI for that.
Maybe the Android Authority one mentioned as the source in the article? https://www.androidauthority.com/android-17-app-lock-notifications-rumor-3630983/
Both have their names on RFCs and have developed many of the protocols we all use. To give them credit, the R&D backend side of things they are both pretty good at.
I’m not sure the research teams have anything to do with business models, or indeed research for what users actually want.
It got away with it due to period accuracy (and it had a decent plot too).
Now move that to a modern setting and it feels icky and gratuitous.
There are a few petrol shortages in the UK I believe, but that’s mostly people panic buying. I have an EV so doesn’t affect me!