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I have been this last week. Very cool. I even built a keyboard for Sailfish OS.

You could make a better UX on ActivityPub without inventing a new, incompatible protocol that has a centralization problem. Email is decentralized just fine. They could have also made proposals to ActivityPub or extending it like most applications do. It is just venture capital bullshit cloning Tvitter which makes it more familiar rather than an objectively easier UX.

Yeah. It’s thoroughly documented tho & nothing seems over-the-top. They also contribute to upstreams. A lot of folks use GitLab despite it only being open core. Every day I have to interact with Microsoft GitHub which is fully proprietary & they do nothing but inject social media nonsense to the platform & train on your data just to sell it back to you. Yet rarely does anyone complain about them being it the middle of free software, & instead they move all comms to the black hole of Discord. Meanwhile Google is no longer doing Android in the open.

I don’t think what Jolla is doing is evil—you just have to play by stupid capitalist rules to be a ‘viable business’ in this economy to keep the lights on. They used to have more stuff open IIRC, but it can be hard to do in practice if you are picking a niche taking on a duopoly.

Sailfish OS exists right now as a Linux mobile OS with their own hardware (& supports the Sony Xperia line as well—which have microSD & headphone jacks …which no GrapheneOS devices support 🙃)

CalDAV supports notes/todos. I never used it tho. I usually just Note to Self on XMPP.

• Gmail -> Posteo
• Chrome -> LibreWolf
• Photos -> rsync (I don’t trust Discord-only communites)
• Drive -> rsync / VCSs
• WhatsApp -> XMPP
• Keep -> What?
• Docs -> Text editor / LibreOffice
• Google Translate -> Yandex Translate (FOSS options do not generally support Eastern languages)

I would say the same & I don’t even use it—but I would trust it being around the longest & is better than GNOME IMO.

I use aerc thru home-manager accounts on NixOS

So watch, but worse license?

Which is why it is important to continue calling them out. The casual privacy enthusiast just regurgitates an infographic or YouTuber. Can’t expect them to be experts, but we can tell them that there is a deeper rabbit hole.

There are many ways to make things resilient. Centralizing isn’t one of them.

Signal is too pedestrian. Without decentralization, your chat isn’t private enough as you don’t control the meta or the servers.