Jonah @jonah@social.privacytools.io

@ben_dw @moz I don’t use Android so I’m not sure. It’s probably fine. Some apps require Play Services however. It all depends on what apps you’re getting more than where you get them.

@ben_dw in the long-term the Graphene devs do plan to develop their own app store, out of security concerns with alternatives like F-Droid, but that isn't a thing yet and won't be for a while.

@ben_dw there's no real good way to install an app store on Graphene. You can install APKs manually of course, or you could install F-Droid to handle all that (I'm not sure what apps they have available) but it wouldn't be able to auto-update apps. Google Play is annoyingly convenient :p

@ben_dw ...but if you're looking for privacy from ISPs (mobile carriers) or your government, smartphones are inherently not private devices. Their design inherently leaks lots of data (like personal ID via phone number, and location via cell tower triangulation or GPS) that can't be easily disabled, if at all.

If that's your threat model an iPod Touch might be best, as it's WiFi only so you can disable all wireless communications if need be, and they're just as secure as an iPhone.

@ben_dw security != privacy. I'd argue that there are exceptional security solutions for mobile devices (iOS and GrapheneOS primarily). Privacy is trickier, because it depends on who you want privacy from.

GrapheneOS as @moz mentioned is great by default because it doesn't come with Google Apps (and in fact you can't install them in a secure manner AFAIK), so if you're careful there's no worries about your data being shared with big corporations oike Google and Facebook.

Picked a fun day to go camping!

@ben_dw Mastodon doesn’t import posts from before it knew about an account. It’s a very long standing annoyance, I think it’s Issue #34 on their GitHub.

@greyor @anonymous_66 I can’t answer vague questions like that 😕

@danarel I dunno if you’re interested in new hosting but we’re [my company is] providing highly discounted hosting (~$1/mo) for privacy-centric websites like yours & can do auto pulls.

Otherwise no real ideas for shared hosting, but I can share our config if you move to servers you can run listeners on (it’s a pretty simple setup) later on 😄

Sorry about the brief downtime last night guys 😦 Some billing issues with our hosting provider. Everything's running great now!

@josantleon@mastodon.social we could do free subdomain web hosting I just don't know what software allows people to create free subdomains like that. WordPress? But idk if many people like WordPress.

@josantleon@mastodon.social any suggestions for a CMS?

@macgirvin what are you even trying to argue, that Facebook was the best solution to this problem? 🤔