Satoshi Samourai on Nostr: #[1]
quoting nevent1q…4gxaGM! "De-Googled" doesn't means it's not on the Play Store. To achieve a truly degoogled app requires a lot of work, attention and some sacrifices.
There are a lot of points that you, as an user, can quickly verify to make sure you are using a truly degoogled app:
- Push Notifications: Also, possibly the most centralised piece of technology ever created by the human race.
- Library of depencies: There are a lot of libraries using in the background firebase or other services that directly access Google's servers. The maintainer of IzzyDroid told me that the most common case for nostr apps are QR reading libraries. Check out the list of dependencies to be sure there is no bad actors behind!
- Some third party tools: I saw some apps using third parties services for different purposes, some of them claims to be open source but that doesn't meant they won't make use of your data or share it with Google.
- PlayStore: Obvious point right? I believe the worst part is that your code will need to pass their policies, so it's really likely you'll end up implementing things in your code just because the asked for it. A nice FOSS app is the one who changed their code exclusively because the community demands it 🙂