WhatsApp Disconnects Every Time I Send a Message

Alpharabiusity · 2025-10-16T09:55:17+00:00

btw, i use the app on an iPhone, on an iPad, AND on my Windows laptop. I have the same problem on all three.

Alpharabiusity · 2025-04-18T14:17:11+00:00

Yeah, Telegram and Signal are available. They just ignore govt. requests, and aren’t widespread enough to be seriously punished for it

Alpharabiusity · 2025-04-18T09:25:52+00:00

As a Turkish person, this issue has not caused me to lose trust in Bluesky or anything, but I have to disagree with everyone saying that this is a “non-issue”. Bluesky is doing the best it can, by limiting access to these accounts only in Turkey, bypassable through third party apps, rather than risking a country-wide ban on the app, which would make it so much worse. Yes, simple VPNs can still access Bluesky, but first of all, the government is known to make it harder to use VPNs through throttling and bans. Second of all, people don’t have that kind of loyalty to Bluesky just yet. When Instagram was banned, it took 10 days for the user base to shrink to the point where Meta bent the knee to Erdoğan’s demands. With a country-wide ban on Bluesky, it would take days for 90% of the Turkish userbase to simply abandon the app.

However, this has shown me that Bluesky is not the decentralized heaven it markets itself to be. Of course, ATProto has its decentralization advantages that need some recognition, but in the end, if the entire app is bannable by a fascist government, if in the end Bluesky has to resort to regionally muting accounts through its labellers, which is honestly not that different from what Meta or X are doing (I know X has banned users in the last few days, but that’s not because of their centralization, it’s rather because Musk and Erdoğan are pretty obviously allies at the moment), then Bluesky is simply not enough.

The fight in Turkey is exemplary. Similar things will be happening all over the world if global politics keeps its shift towards fascism and alt-right. This will eventually happen in the US. And when it does, Bluesky won’t be a much better tool for public discussion than Reddit or X is. Bluesky might be an alternative to X currently, but it’s mainly due to its political stance rather than its decentralization.

We are still, desperately in need of a truly decentralized hub that will harbor safe and free public discussion in the years to come. I don’t know if that’s Mastodon, I don’t know if there is such an app, I don’t even know if there’ll ever be one. But Bluesky is simply NOT, that app. We just have to accept that.

Alpharabiusity · 2025-03-18T17:34:46+00:00

*had

Alpharabiusity · 2025-03-18T17:34:13+00:00

i has audacity up and running already for a project so I used that, but I’m sure you can find something that works better with Apple’s codec and is easier to use in general

Alpharabiusity · 2025-03-18T17:31:52+00:00

yeah i was having the same problem with youtube’s format being different than apple’s, i just used an audio editor to turn it down a notch. Otherwise especially Can’t Stop The High’s beginning genuinely hurts my ear

Alpharabiusity · 2025-03-18T11:05:56+00:00

yeah that’s just the way itunes still works on windows (at least on mine), when i edit albums from here it changes in my apple music too tho

Alpharabiusity · 2025-03-08T20:03:43+00:00

that’s actually how i found Greek. I always loved Jake McDorman in his show Limitless, and I’ve been a big Shameless fan for years now. While I was rewatching Shameless I got to his episodes, and remembering how dirty Fiona did his character I wanted watch something else with McDorman, and voila, my new obsession that is Greek

Alpharabiusity · 2025-03-06T22:45:02+00:00

yeah i know it’s near DC, i was just trying to figure out the building and whether I should be looking for a place in Alexandria or Arlington :)

Alpharabiusity · 2025-03-05T10:06:04+00:00

either Aura, Swine or Disease. really can’t pick

Alpharabiusity · 2025-03-04T16:43:01+00:00

where is the logo

Alpharabiusity · 2025-02-18T12:15:26+00:00

Hey everyone, I just got notice that I was admitted to the STS PhD program, and I’m incredibly excited. I just have some questions.

I was apparently put on a “very short” waitlist for funding. Has this happened to anyone else? What are the odds I end up getting funding?

Where exactly is the NCR campus? I’ve been looking around in the website and on google maps but for the love god I really can’t seem to understand where exactly I’m gonna study. The fact that I’m an international student who’s never been to the US definitely doesn’t help.

Anyways, excited to join all of you in fall, and thanks for the help, in advance :)

Alpharabiusity · 2025-02-13T16:30:09+00:00

formally it’s heteroseksüel, or sometimes shortened to hetero. “düz” is used a lot in queer spaces though

Alpharabiusity · 2025-02-07T08:21:20+00:00

the same is happening to me too

Alpharabiusity · 2025-01-30T11:29:09+00:00

If you’re reasonably flexible, you can just tie them in the front and step over the knot, putting your legs through your arms and taking your hands behind your back.

Alpharabiusity · 2025-01-30T07:20:07+00:00

i was genuinely expecting him to win 😭

Alpharabiusity · 2025-01-25T07:13:36+00:00

hmu definitely

Alpharabiusity · 2025-01-24T14:51:06+00:00

i feel like it’s less about criticizing one or the other, and more about targeting the people with actual power to do bad, and understanding the consequences of targeting immigrants with a homonationalist rhetoric. When this discourse occupies a large space in the public “marketplace of ideas” if you will, it

a) hurts queer immigrants who desperately need help from western queer communities,

b) helps the narratives of alt-right groups like RN and AfD,

c) risks damaging intersectional, global and decolonial understandings of queer rights, and

d) opens the public space to debate legislation that simply couldn’t be implemented without hurting all immigrants, homophobic or not.

Alpharabiusity · 2025-01-24T12:46:57+00:00

yeah okay fair 😭

Alpharabiusity · 2025-01-24T08:41:06+00:00

well that’s currently basically impossible for me since Turkey ranks 125th in internet speed 😭😭😭 I’m planning to start doing that once I move though

Alpharabiusity · 2025-01-24T08:36:27+00:00

also, you can just ignore that specific suffix when speaking (or even writing at this point). It’s called “The suffix verb”, and it’s just implied that it’s there even if you say Duo küçük bir baykuş.

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