E.g. even though most of my important contacts don’t exclusively rely on Whatsapp any more, the alternative that has established itself as a kind of consensus is Signal, which is only available via Playstore, if I’m not mistaken.
Same is true for my banking app that is needed for my day-to-day bank account.
Same is also true for governmental service apps or the ID app to authenticate once before e.g. being able to use a new SIM card.
List goes probably on, these are just the things that have come spontaneously to my mind.
This complete reliance on OS’s from a private companies (Apple not being better) with their own agenda sucks.
And LineageOS isn’t the solution it has been a few years back any more, I am afraid… :-(
Interesting…
I had the conflict with f-droid in my mind, where the Signal developers were very specific about not wanting any Signal builds distributed outside of the Playstore.
That seems to have changed…?
But still no build distributed via f-droid, I just checked. But that may still be because the f-droid maintainers really where pissed off at the time…
No that’s due to the tiny hat community doing exactly that & archiving secret chats.
Check out Micah Lee’s presentation in Defcon regarding Telemessage-Signal.
Welp, another reason to use Lineage without Play services
Has its shortcomings unfortunately…
E.g. even though most of my important contacts don’t exclusively rely on Whatsapp any more, the alternative that has established itself as a kind of consensus is Signal, which is only available via Playstore, if I’m not mistaken.
Same is true for my banking app that is needed for my day-to-day bank account.
Same is also true for governmental service apps or the ID app to authenticate once before e.g. being able to use a new SIM card.
List goes probably on, these are just the things that have come spontaneously to my mind.
This complete reliance on OS’s from a private companies (Apple not being better) with their own agenda sucks.
And LineageOS isn’t the solution it has been a few years back any more, I am afraid… :-(
You are, in fact, mistaken
Also @Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de, there’s Molly, an alternative signal client.
Thanks, didn’t know that existed.
Although their website is inaccurate, as it seems not to be available on f-droid.
It is. Follow these instructions. It adds an F-Droid repository with the applications
Interesting…
I had the conflict with f-droid in my mind, where the Signal developers were very specific about not wanting any Signal builds distributed outside of the Playstore.
That seems to have changed…?
But still no build distributed via f-droid, I just checked. But that may still be because the f-droid maintainers really where pissed off at the time…
To my knowledge, they prohibit third parties from building distributions and connecting to the centralized server, because fuck open-source, I guess.
No that’s due to the tiny hat community doing exactly that & archiving secret chats. Check out Micah Lee’s presentation in Defcon regarding Telemessage-Signal.