They force you to give them your phone number. No phone number = not allowed to use Signal. Plus, Signal uses servers from Big Tech (just search for it on reddit).

XMPP (mainly Snikket) is the best lightweight option.

Because Signal does not fully respect your privacy.

1. They have their own closed eco system
2. They think money is key and throw large amounts at their consumers
3. All source code is closed
4. They are based in USA
5. They love AI

Like what another person said, hate is a strong word. But when it comes to Big Tech, I'm all for the word.

Might have missed adding something to the list. Will add more if I have.

Different people, different taste.

I love FairEmail because of its "millions" of settings and the privacy features, for an example if you press a link, you'll get a popup with options (for an example, what app you want to open the link with). And if the link contains trackers, FairEmail will remove these by default and saying "tracking parameters removed" with yellow text in bold.

K-9 Mail feels incomplete in comparison. Have you tried FairEmail?

I must agree on the bloated part. Telegram was awesome before Pavel got greedy and added more and more stuff that are just not related to any chat service, for an example payments and crypto.

I installed Snikket on my server few weeks ago and are now trying to move everyone to it. It seems to be a very slow process, though.

But I might keep Telegram only for the porn channels. Mighty good stuff!

By the way. Do you have the source for your claim that Russian authorities were messing with people's deleted messages?

• Moshidon: letting me communicate with people on Mastodon
• QKSMS: text message (SMS) app
• KISS Launcher: a very neat launcher that took a while before I could love it as I do now
• FairEmail: an email client with tons of options
• Mull: a fork of Firefox
• Privacy Browser: a browser based on WebView
• Simple Calendar Pro: for managing my self-hosted CalDAV (waiting for Fossify's version)
• Fossify Gallery: managing my images and videos
• AntennaPod: listening to podcasts
• Bitwarden: managing my self-hosted vaultwarden
• Download Navi: download files instead of using the browser
• Foxy Droid: making browsing apps on mainly F-Droid and IzzyOnDroid like old-school Google Play Store
• Loop Habits: logging my habits
• Hypatia: protecting my smartphone from malware using ClamAV
• Lemuroid: able to play my childhood favourite games wherever I am
• Miniflutt: read RSS posts through my self-hosted Miniflux server
• Mullvad VPN: protecting my identity wherever I am
• OpenTracks: track my movements
• Seal: download videos from mainly YouTube, but also converting YouTube videos to MP3 files (perfect for downloading music mixes for my bicycle trips)
• Syncthing: syncing important files to and from my desktop
• Voyager: browsing Lemmy
• URL Radio: listening to manually added radio stations
• Tasks: reminding me to do stuff
• Unexpected Keyboard: by far the best keyboard with really good shortcuts
• Planisphere: exploring the sky and letting me plan my astro photography
• LibreTube: exploring YouTube through Piped API
• Simple Voice Recorder: letting me record stuff when I don't have my audio recorder with me (waiting for Fossify's version)

• Requires Google Play Store to install the app. They refer to Play Store from their release page on GitHub.
  • No client on F-Droid nor IzzyOnDroid.
• Based in USA.
• You can't install the server on your own server.
• The server's source code appears to be closed.

I wouldn't use it or trust it 🙂

For me personally, it's Victor Mono and Iosevka. Victor Mono for desktop and Iosevka for VSCodium.

That was the issue! So v4.18.8 change from Shortcuts to Tree automatically. Good to know when Thunar will be updated on my laptop. Many thanks :)

I've been working on my economy overview website Keizai for the past 2-3 months. And started to develop the new version of my weather service Serenum few weeks ago. Only the landing page are done for now.

Keizai are basically all done. Just some tweaks and improvements here and there left to do. Also planning some new features.

The current version of Serenum works, but it is slow. The new version will be faster since the new API will cache the data. And instead of OpenWeatherMap (that logs "a lot" of data upon API request), the new version of Serenum API will use met.no (weather API from Norway with zero (0) logging).

Initally Facebook, but then also Google and Microsoft.

I download the music from YouTube (through front-end services like Piped) and play it locally through a music player.

I don't know how it works on iPhone (I have an Android phone), but I can use NewPipe and LibreTube and Seal to download the music. If I'm on the go that is. Otherwise I download the music through ytdlp and transfer the files to my smartphone.

Apple really restrict their users to their own ecosystem.