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I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And the Electron desktop apps are far too bloated.

No argument. Electron is categorically silly in its own right, lol.

 

They don’t want you installing it from a safer space like F-Droid.

F-Droid is by no means safe; use Droidify.

 

They still by default send notification metadata to Google & Apple (websocket support exists but drains a fair amount of battery & they refuse to support UnifiedPush).

Easy: use the FOSS version of Molly instead of the default Signal app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hi, could you touch on why F-Droid is less safe? Is it because they package (I think that's the term?) stuff themselves?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Certainly.

To answer your question: yeah, pretty much.

I got all of this information, originally, through this guy's channel (Side Of Burritos on YouTube):

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzpVI4zaso0
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAbgeJau3eE
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFz57zNR_M0

 

It's also worth mentioning that part three of that series ended up directly inspiring another project called Obtanium, which he then did a video on here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiN37bn0OE8

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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https://www.piped.video/watch?v=FFz57zNR_M0

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=JiN37bn0OE8

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