At this point I'm convinced that there's something deeply wrong with how our society treats technology.

Ruining Android for everyone to try to maybe help some rather technologically-hopeless groups of people is the wrong solution. It's unsustainable in the long run. Also, the last thing this world needs right now is even more centralization of power. Especially around yet another US company.

People who are unwilling to figure out the risks just should not use smartphones and the internet. They should not use internet banking. They should probably not have a bank account at all and just stick to cash. And the society should be able to accommodate such people — which is not that hard, really. Just roll back some of the so-called innovations that happened over the last 15 years. Whether someone uses technology, and how much they do, should be a choice, not a burden.

For the Mastodon Android app, I also sometimes see crashes that make no sense. For example, how about native crashes, on a thread that is created and run by the system, that only contains system libraries in its stack trace, and that never ran any of my code because the app doesn't contain any native libraries to begin with?

Unfortunately I've never looked at crashes this way when I worked at VKontakte because there were just too many crashes overall. That app had tens of millions of users so it crashed a lot in absolute numbers no matter what I did.