You don't need every device to be able to talk to every device. As long as devices don't become isolated, changes are eventually propagated to all copies, even if not all in one step.

They've moved to a cloud-based, subscription model for the new version (Blockada 6). You can still get Blockada 5, which is offline and free, for now, but it may be phased out at some point.

PIF?

Have you noticed any battery drain from it? Blockada sometimes affected my battery life when in use, or even after I deactivated it.

Thanks! I'm leaning towards this option. Have you noticed any battery drain? Blockada seemed to affected my battery life sometimes.

Glider looks great! Thanks for the recommendation!

I look forward to trying Boost, even though I only used it for Reddit briefly, several years ago! On desktop, I like the Lemmy web UI just as well as Old Reddit.

Perfect! I like the fact that you're showing the error, so I can know exactly what went wrong, whether it's likely on my side or the server's.

manually selected my mobile network and disabled automatic network selection.

Do you know why this might help improve battery life? The way I see it, once you're connected to a network, there's no need to search for any others.

There is also an other approach: encode your media a priori into a format that you can play direct, and then you don't have to worry about transcoding performance. The advantage of this is that you can likely get better quality encodes.

I was sceptical at first, but it’s great! It properly parses repos, it shows you a preview of where you’re about to download from, and if there are multiple assets in a release it lets you pick the right one. And then it does auto-updates just like an F-Droid client!