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F-Droid Link: Element (previously Riot.im) (Secure decentralised chat & VoIP. Keep your data safe from third parties.) - https://f-droid.org/packages/im.vector.app
By the way, "Foxy Droid" does the same job as F-Droid but is much less annoying. Available on F-Droid.
This is very disruptive to me. Our business chose to use Element because of the privacy and interoperability functions it afforded us through end-to-end encryption and the bridges feature (matrix.org/bridges).
Does this also affect existing installs, or only (attempted) new ones?
At first there were just a few, heavily downvoted, voices saying that Twitter shouldn't be deplatforming obnoxious cretins on grounds of free speech principles. And now here we are with open source chat clients getting removed from the app store.
I know alot of smart people will try to argue Its Not The Same Thing, but I'm with the side that says there's a direct line through these events.
Honest question: Why is the F-Droid option a few versions behind?
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Or they make F-Droid more known. Publishing apks yourself means you have to implement an update feature. F-Droid takes care of that
How is F-Droid conceptually different from PlayStore? They can ban anything just as well.
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It's trivial to sideload apps on most Android devices. You can't sideload on iOS unless you jailbreak or spend some time and money on a developer account, and even then you're rather limited on what you can do.
Side loading is clunky. If Android were really as free and open as everyone says it is, then there would be a method built into the os to download and install apps directly through the web browser, without hunting through settings and enabling it. As it is, this is barely better than iOS, and I’m kind of disgusted that everyone thinks it’s fine and normal as a solution.
On top of that, if you have a rooted phone, you can use F-Droid to automatically install updates. For me updating apps from F-Droid is actually more convenient than updating apps from the play store, which I have to manually install.
There absolutely could be phone vendors selling LineageOS phones with F-Droid as the default app store. The only really important thing that would be missing for a lot of people would be WhatsApp.
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the difference is Signal is NOT federated, and matrix is. Which make it more like email, harder to censor.
Not necessarily, I run a non-federated synapse (matrix protocol) server for intranet type use. It's in an environment where it has no connection to the wider internet at all. The default matrix.org servers are federated. In terms of what the default Element install presents to the user upon launch in its GUI, I think it does offer the 'official' matrix.org servers as a place to create an account and sign in, start br…
I got banned here for saying this but I'll continue to say it nevertheless. We are already in the Censorship Era. This is an Orwellian Nightmare. The quicker this is brought under control the better. The last thing we need is Corporate Overlords controlling what we say or do online. This includes Hacker News as well.
You got banned for saying that? I am skeptical
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You, like Parler, have been targeted by the powers that be. You may have nothing else in common other than that but, you're in the same boat it seems.
Parler curated the content on their platform for months including shadowbanning new accounts until they had been approved by volunteer moderators. Accounts on Parler called for and planned violence against elected officials for months. Executives at the company spoke often and publicly supporting that content. If your going to argue with a straight face the this new situation is the same as Parler, your putting Eleme…
And yet, accounts that did the same for AntiFA fascists and BLM "peaceful protests" for 4 years still stand. As do the platforms (Facebook, Twitter, etc).
Banning platforms while letting those who encouraged much worse for longer isn't a way to instill confidence in unbiased decisions.
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Wait until CBDCs roll out. Right now, it is your speech and communication. Tomorrow, it will be accessing your money. Then they will have their desired perfectly obedient population.
I've thought CBDCs ensure the opposite? Currently if you have an uninsured account at a bank, and the bank goes bankrupt, your money is gone. With CBDCs it seems to me that the money is truly yours instead of in a currency pegged to the fiat but that can always break.
It's a simple equation to grok: if utility X is only available in a digitized form on a controlled and centralized platform, then that utility is subject to central controls. And as we see, these control mechanisms will inevitably require AI moderation to scale.
You think things are bad when Google arbitrarily kicks you off gmail? Wait until it happens to your bank account. Who are you gonna call? Where are you going to go and speak out about it?