https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.osmand.telegram
Maybe one day someone writes it for matrix? In the meantime telegram is good enough.
Locus is the new cool kid on the market https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/app.myzel394.locus I have no idea how trustworthy it is but it looks promising.
Simplelogin with proton pass. With proton pass it couldn’t be easier (aside from a keyboard integration)
I don’t think that they published it as a response to the angry users. We wern’t that loud and signal had a reason to do so. That was when they worked on the cryptocurrency and the spam protection. In signals case it dosn’t matter much if the server is compromised since the important part happens on the client side. The server can only forward encrypted salad or not deliver a message. Or log the meta data of the messages. E2e will always be there, despite the server being compromised.
I’m on Pixel 6 running GrapheneOS,
I control a lot of what the device is doing. I am a nerd, hence I want to use it, and because I use it, I am a nerd.
I spend a lot of time which I could’ve spent otherwise. Little feature that people show off let me feel like I’ve got an inferior device. I am talking about auto cropping a thing in an image on ios. At the same time ios can’t play an oga file which is more important than apple’s playground. It only happens once a year but seeing a friend airdropping something to a stranger feels like I’m missing out. I hate apple for being like shit. Compared to other androids … no, I don’t miss android auto. Pay could be there but not that neccessary. Being able to toggle wifi on or off is actually more important and seeing that even xiaomi etc. Still have the tiles but GrapheneOS doesn’t feels like shit. Browsing the web with mull and vpn is slow compared to other devices with chromium browsers. Selfie camera is a banana. It takes long to start a video and long to stop one. It’s difficult to post process on android due to the lack of apps and options.
Tough call. It depends. Ideologically I’d say yes. For nerds, yes. For kids and young adults, yes if you are strong enough to resist the FOMO that people will give you.
Who? (That blog post is a couple of years old amyway)
That hasn’t been the case in the past two years and I doubt it has ever been.
Then don’t bring it up.
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Matrix is not only a viable alternative to discord but to all other messaging services. Nothing keeps you from replacing whatsapp with it. However matrix does produce lots of metadata and your server has access to it. If you don’t like your admin to have that metadata then only a p2p service is an alternative. Signal doesn’t store the metadata forever on their servers. Everything else is encrypted.