I just want to educate y'all about this specific "scary" warning (that you may see in the Pixelfed app)

Apple Bonjour is a feature that enables seamless connection between your Apple devices

You can safely tap "Don't Allow" without any impact, however, that may limit Handoff support and other Apple features we're planning to implement.

Regardless, you can audit our app code yourself to verify we aren't doing anything sketchy

github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed-r

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dansup

Apple added this in 2020 as part of their overhaul of Privacy features, you can learn more here

developer.apple.com/videos/pla

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Fell

@dansup What is handoff suppport?

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/@treefit@fosstodon.org

@dansup you could try to delay that message by doing the first local network request after asking the user frist explaining what it is for.

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TSRBerry

@dansup Do you need to request this permission before you implement anything that would use it?

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