This might be a good place to ask:
Sure, I could donate to postmarketOS, but they’re doing quite well and I’d rather donate somewhere it’s much more needed, especially projects that
That’s just an Android ROM.
I’ve used it a lot and even heavily promoted it for a while, but no longer do, as it still does not work well enough for my liking. It all seems buggy in general.
Not if you use, for example, https://piefed.social/, which is a lot like Reddit, but blue.
Crypto “currencies” are just a tech bro dystopia, just avoid it.
And https://movim.eu/ is a federated choice, allowing you to choose your provider, just like you do for your phone or emails.
Have a look at https://movim.eu/
They also use an Android kernel with libhybris, which means they rely on a lot of Android components and are not very independent.
I just wish they would use mainline kernels instead.
Also, their App Support is literally an Android in a container with some proprietary integration parts into the proprietary UI.
Just two things would make it a lot more interesting:
Pretty sure the proprietary UI is the reason there are many more apps for the other phone distros.
There’s still no free choice, users will be bound to their provider and whatever path the enshittification will take.
But does not allow you to freely choose a provider, which makes it far easier to enshittify if people cannot leave, something like https://mov.im/ could solve this.
Monocles also does what Movim does, but with a native app on the phone.
Yup. That’s why we need something federated and standards based, something that is interoperable.
https://snikket.org/ https://mov.im/
There are many more and you can freely choose your provider. And when it does something you don’t agree with - enshittifying - just move to another provider. Federation: Keep your contacts, not your provider.
Why not something federated like https://mov.im/ instead of something that ties you to a single provider you cannot leave when it pulls off stupid stuff?
And if it’s just a couple large instances that do not federate they can also pull off stupid stuff, because it is not federated.
This would not happen with Movim, for example.
You can just freely choose any server you like and that has values you agree with.
Exactly.
Consider Snikket and Fluux.
Exactly. Which is why I think the federated (and very similarly named) Fluux will have much more success than this.
I’m not going to create another account on two, three or a dozen server if I already have a federated account I can use anywhere.
You surely mean Wikipedia is as US-American as the Linux kernel is Finnish, right? :p
Wero lets users send money using just a phone number — no IBAN, no card, no intermediary.
Which is good, but we also need a card.
I doubt we can ensure
As long as the solution is purely based on apps, large parts of the population will lose access as soon as payments via the US are no longer an option.
EDIT: Just imagine national card systems were part of Wero… And you could just use your WeroCard across Europe and buy stuff without leaving traces in the US.
Debian has specific installers for Macs, for example.
sigh We already have Wero, very NIH…