Iām not from USA and ācultismā is not for me, Iām enthusiast of open source and donāt trust proprietary software and hardware. Sadly, but there is no 100% hardware ready for end-users, so Iām just trying to find a balance.
Btw, any device has proprietary āsecurityā components, so itās all about āsmells lessā, not " trusted one".
My own opinion - GrapheneOS is good one, using it on Pixel devices is a trade-off.
Anyway, that thread comes to holywar and I donāt want to take part in it, my arguments and thoughts you can find in comments above, if you disagree with them - OK, Iām fine with it. Just shared my thoughts
OK, has any xiaomi phone audited by anybody?
What about proprietary hardware of all other vendors?
Iām not trying to say that pixel is perfect or something, I think whole mobile market is a proprietary shit, tbh. But you need phone anyway, so IMT just trying to tell that pixel smells less that xiaomi, Asus or anything else
Privacy can be controlled on application level, but there are a lot of system stuff that user canāt change and the best solution for system is GrapheneOS in terms of security, as I said in first comment.
Google is evil, no question about that, but Google is just a brand / label on the phone. Ironically, but most secure and privacy-friendly phone is Google Pixel without Google
As for privacy, any phone capable of running lineageos is fine, but lacks security
You talk about users like about some apples that you can just buy in the nearest shop.
Thatās not how it works. If you want users to use your app, you donāt need to create imaginary problem, you need to solve a real problem, otherwise all your āuser gatheringsā will give you users for a very short period of time, after that users will leave platform.
Your post is very naive view of current state of the world, sorry. Nobody will buy privacy, people who concerned about privacy donāt use data-mining services (like line or Facebook).
Do you want money? Do something that users will want to use.
I know one good example - etke.cc, those guys create and support Matrix servers for users, their work based on opensource and they get money directly from users, fair relations with users, IMO.
I know a lot bad examples, where sevice maintainers sell users data, even if they have paid service.
Be fair with users, be good one.
Migadu.com - love this one
And thatās very good! Iām tired of covid-related posts, 99% of them are useless and donāt provide any interesting content. When I subscribe to the technology communities I donāt want to read about covid, I want to read about technologies!
Of course, if you interested in covid-related content, just subscribe to specific communities about it, but donāt post it in other communities
Hey, Iām new to Lemmy and I can tell you about the missing part - clients.
I accidentally found Lemmy client in F-droid (lemmur) itās pretty good, but lacks a lot of QoL features.
I think, having multiple clients for all platforms will help with userbase and content.
Add Lemmy clients to Google Play, Apple App Store, Amazon App Store, Huawei App Store, etc.
More clients -> more people find out Lemmy -> more users will join Lemmy -> more content will be posted by these users.
Of course itās my own opinion, not pretending to be the only way
TL;DR: Apple does good changes to their software for userās privacy. Google does not. Apple is good. Google is bad.
Both of them are bad, IMO.