I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.
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.
Hi, could you touch on why F-Droid is less safe? Is it because they package (I think that’s the term?) stuff themselves?
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):
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzpVI4zaso0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAbgeJau3eE
- 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:
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=IzpVI4zaso0
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=lAbgeJau3eE
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=FFz57zNR_M0
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=JiN37bn0OE8
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
