Yup. Which I approve for everyone's safety. I dont want homophobes to have easy access to listing all profiles around the world for homophobic harassment.
"vendor lock in and lack of privacy are good because it gives ppl a (false) sense of security" is quite a take.
homophobes have smartphones. its just linux/privacy nerds/luddites that don't. The gain of homophobes not being able to use emulators is smaller than the privacy/safety lost by genuine users not being able to conceal their location from said homophobes (who are able to use the platform regardless, though in a slightly more fettered way).
Even with a genuine account that I had for years, i can't do shit unless I get an approved android phone so they can spy on me, but anyone with a regular smartphone can log in and look at all the local profiles and get a pretty damn good idea of their exact location with a small amount of trianglulation
Yup. Which I approve for everyone's safety. I dont want homophobes to have easy access to listing all profiles around the world for homophobic harassment.
"vendor lock in and lack of privacy are good because it gives ppl a (false) sense of security" is quite a take.
homophobes have smartphones. its just linux/privacy nerds/luddites that don't. The gain of homophobes not being able to use emulators is smaller than the privacy/safety lost by genuine users not being able to conceal their location from said homophobes (who are able to use the platform regardless, though in a slightly more fettered way).
Even with a genuine account that I had for years, i can't do shit unless I get an approved android phone so they can spy on me, but anyone with a regular smartphone can log in and look at all the local profiles and get a pretty damn good idea of their exact location with a small amount of trianglulation