Sonalder

GrapheneOS is a harden Android that gives you more control over your phone and its data. It’s not the only FOSS variant based on AOSP and works only on Google’s Pixel hardware as of today for security reasons. I’ve been running it for years now and I honestly like it very much.

The core of Android is open source and named AOSP for short, it is built on top of the Linux kernel which is also free and open source. However Google have made AOSP not usable by abandonning most of the free app in favor of their own proprietary apps such as Google Messenger, Goole Photos etc… That’s why community project like LineageOS builds their own apps to make them usable instead of the old deprecated ones. Brands like Samsung, OnePlus, etc… are not building from AOSP but rather paying a licence fee to Google so they can use the Google Services that are almost necessary to modern Android.

OP is running GrapheneOS which is a Free and Open Source Operating System based on AOSP.

Yes it is free as in free beer, it connect to a network based on an open protocole of federated free (as in freedom) software instances. It also value users privacy and respect their digital integrity, could do more to that but it’s not even comparable to reddit lol. It’s not black or white.

I didn’t say that it has to. It’s my choice to choose an option that respect my freedom. I have no issue with Arctic and it being proprietary. I simply use it to test the client and not interact extensively with the fediverse. One of the reason I like the Fediverse it’s because it’s Free Software as in Freedom, and that’s the same reason why I like Free and Open Source Clients for the Fediverse. I use proprietary software in my life and I can live with that.

Except in the freedom way :) But yes probably the best client iPhone users have.

Free as free beer not as freedom

I was still on the old repo https://github.com/diegoberaldin/RaccoonForLemmy

The F-Droid link also changed thanks for letting me know !

From my experience Photon is the best web client, Eternity is the best Android client and Voyager or Mlem seems to be the best iOS clients. In the free and open source side.

I don’t wanna use proprietary client for the fediverse if great FOSS alternative exists.

But here are some proprietary client that looks great in my opinion Connect for Android and Arctic for iOS.

Is it still alive ? Like maintained, I thought it has been pulled out of the PlayStore and F-Droid

Maybe but this isn’t free and open source software…