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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by candiddevmike on Sunday December 03, 2023 @09:22PM (#38513040)
You could run a battery optimized, opportunistically available mastodon instance from your phone, but Apple and Google won't let you. The amount of wasted compute in everyone's hands is staggering.
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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by threeseed on Sunday December 03, 2023 @10:30PM (#38513435)
Apple made a guide for how to use Mastodon on iOS:

https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1668483560

So conceptually they are fine with it. And there is nothing you stopping your running servers on your devices.

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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by saagarjha on Monday December 04, 2023 @01:38AM (#38514301)
Servers that can’t run continuously aren’t very useful, though?
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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by glenstein on Monday December 04, 2023 @03:08AM (#38514828)
Whether you think they're useful is one thing, but the point was that they're not in any formal sense forbidden by Google or Apple.
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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by linuxandrew on Sunday December 03, 2023 @09:47PM (#38513180)
Something like https://www.manyver.se/ ? It is available on Google Play, Apple App Store and F-Droid.

It seems they have had some issues with Google Play and the App Store with their weird catch-all policies, requiring integration with Google/Apple login etc. but they have managed to work around it for the time being.

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Re:The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't i... by sleepybrett on Monday December 04, 2023 @02:26PM (#38521877)
How is the relevant to the conversation? Sure, we have very powerful processors in many devices in our home that are idle much of the time. What, exactly, is your point.
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