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For example, I'm trying to find out how isolated the work profile on my phone is and whether it shares identifiers with the main profile, but in general I'm thinking of buying a new phone and keep Google et al. as far away as possible, but I need to understand exactly what data these companies have access to.

From when it was still cool and niche to be a redditor and you needed to identify each other in public, you could use that sentence.

Lemmy / Kbin is getting to the point where it's cool and niche. Want it or not, you're one of the cool counter-mainstream kids now.

So, what's our secret code phrase?

I hate the damage that Apple seems to have done in this regard. I also hate it when apps hide features because "they're for power users and regular users won't understand them".

Sure, there's a difference between UX being so bad that it's frustrating to use and "we need to simplify things because we don't want to scare the users".

Lemmy UI has its problems to solve and features to add, but it's not bad, even on mobile. I've been using it extensively and it does fine all things considered.

~~Anyways, at this point I believe there's even a benefit to making a UI a bit ugly and scary, so you end up with a higher quality of users instead of quantity, as cold as it might sound.~~

Edit: I didn't mean to just talk about Lemmy. That was just an example and I understand that for a social platform numbers are important. My rant was more general in regards to the dumbing down of UI in all areas.

Edit2: I'm sorry. I didn't want to come off as elitist. I'm actually concerned about the loss of power user features more than non-tech savvy users having a bad time.