As a Singaporean, I’m shook that the system can be broken so seemingly easily.

As for a human being (myself) it is hard as it is to transfer my CPF (similar to a pension fund) for payments such as housing, medical, investments etc without having a million OTPs, gov app (Singpass) verifications etc.

All things considered, $100+K out of $10M is ~1%, is not much for scam amounts lost from CPF (pension).

ICQ

Damnit, price increased for me. I should’ve jumped at ~100 for life time, now it’s 149.98.

I’m in Switzerland

Any preference so far?

It’s quite telling that by having a more ‘complicated’ sign up process and ‘how-things-work’ around here is able to keep idiots off the Fediverse (for now)

And I appreciate this, which means as a potential user I need to do my own background research, look around at different sources of information, lurk for a bit, before committing to a platform. And this in and of itself, for me at least, gives me a better appreciation of the ‘verse’ and how I can contribute to it.

From the article “The Fediverse is not that. It’s kind of… different. I mean, the very first thing you get asked when signing up for a Fediverse platform is “Which Instance?”. The signup process in the Fediverse is more complicated than people are used to.”

A counter example to this ‘barrier of entry’ would be threads. Super easy to join, making it almost ‘stupid’ not to join if you’re already on IG and using Twitter, without understanding what it offers besides simply being an alternative to threads (this is where I was at, could not outweigh the cons vs twitter, thus did not join)

Link?

Reminds me of my Reddit journey before, gone through too many apps including RIF, baconreader before settling on Sync which I really loved.

T’was a fun time lurking around other apps /r and experimenting. and I kinda like it, like now fedi/Lemmy/Kbin etc.

No hate, just doing stuff and see what happens

I’m gonna give Connect a go! Thanks for the recc

And I’m guessing you’re here at Sync due to past loyalties, and may jump ship when Sync is up and/on Connect experience goes down?

Which app?

Countdown to Sync for me. Representative of where we are now, waiting…

No need for the second line

It starts with