If I’m sending encrypted mail to gmail, only that one mail is compromised once decrypted on gmail’s servers.

What? How? Most private email providers only support encryption like Proton to Proton or Tuta to Tuta. Emails sended to anything else stay unencrypted. And there’s no way you’re going to use this stupid password protection everytime, because if you do, then why would you even use email?

Do you only send mail to gmail users or something?

Almost everyone uses Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo or whatever. Unfortunately, not everyone are privacy concious like you and me.

smtp is no better or worse than xmpp, irc or whatever else if you have end to end encryption.

No, it’s not. Emails should not be used by political activists to communicate. Even the best email providers like Proton or Tuta can’t give you 100% protection and this activist arrest is the perfect example.
Email is the obsolete protocol, that should only be used to register on random websites and get authorization codes. For everything else you should use secure messaging apps.

Trusting law-abiding corporations to protect your privacy is fundamentally a bad idea, and as such, promoting Proton as a private alternative to Google

You can’t trust anyone, that’s true. But self-hosting your own 100% bulletproof MailCow server on 1984 VPS, which you pay for in Monero won’t make you any more private, because emails you send still end up on Gmail inboxes.
It’s simply unneccesary for normal user with not so high threat model. And if you’re a political activist, then why even using email instead of normal privacy communication solutions like SimpleX, Session or Briar?

I think that you should look at our world realistically. You can’t just go “fuck the goverment” mode and remain active as a corporation. Proton shared as less info as possible, but they couldn’t refuse to share it at all.

lol, lmao

I assume you don’t understand how law and authorities work, if this is funny for you. Proton is still one of the best private email providers. Period.

What’s the difference between this and Sapio?

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.klee.sapio/

And also proprietary, as it’s distributed under source-available license:

https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard?tab=License-1-ov-file

AyuGram is ad-free and also has a little more TOS-breaking features. Use at your own risk!

Mobile: https://github.com/AyuGram/AyuGram4A
Desktop: https://github.com/AyuGram/AyuGramDesktop

From their website:

Why build a new browser in C++ when safer and more modern languages are available?

Ladybird started as a component of the SerenityOS hobby project, which only allows C++. The choice of language was not so much a technical decision, but more one of personal convenience. Andreas was most comfortable with C++ when creating SerenityOS, and now we have almost half a million lines of modern C++ to maintain.
However, now that Ladybird has forked and become its own independent project, all constraints previously imposed by SerenityOS are no longer in effect. We are actively evaluating a number of alternatives and will be adding a mature successor language to the project in the near future. This process is already quite far along, and prototypes exist in multiple languages.

You can easily self-host it:
https://help.ente.io/self-hosting

Ente Auth
F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/io.ente.auth/

Finetunes

Did you mean “Fintunes”?

OnionShare is FOSS and transfers files over TOR network.

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.onionshare.android.fdroid/

People have to learn to separate software from its developer.
For example, I don’t care about Hyprland lead dev being an asshole sometimes, if the WM he’s developing works good. I don’t care about Cider devs political positions if it doesn’t directly affect my experience with the software.

And people also have to learn, that if someone uses any particular software, they aren’t necessarily using it the way developer pointed out they should.
I use GrapheneOS on my device, but that doesn’t mean that I completely follow devs philosophy. I don’t use Vanadium, 'cause I don’t wanna support Chromium monopoly. I use F-Droid to install my apps, even if developers think, that I should get my apps directly from its devs.

Does GrapheneOS founder or developer philosophy that you don’t agree with makes Graphene a bad OS? Of course it doesn’t. GrapheneOS is still one of the best options on degoogling your device if not the best.

Yeah I don’t agree with the osd being the only approach to being open source.

Well, it isn’t the only one. FSF also has requirements for free-software licenses and FTL doesn’t meet them.

It wasn’t a response to my comment because you didn’t respond to my comment. You said is proprietary. I point out that it’s not a terrible license.

I was answering that statement: «does not appear to hide the code behind any proprietary shielding», 'cause it does.

Ah. Of course. Something being open source doesn’t make it open source. It all makes sense now thank you for clarifying.

If the license doesn’t meet the OSD, then it isn’t open-source, but just source-available. You are welcome.

That also wasn’t technically a response to my comment, it was an ideological defense mechanism to avoid addressing the content of the license.

It was. I pointed out, that FTL is a proprietary license. Because: «Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code» © OSI

Source available ≠ open-source

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it was founded as a Russian company

Why does that matter?

signal

I personally think that Session is better than Signal. At least it doesn’t require a phone number to register.

fooyin is a music player built around customisation. It offers a growing list of widgets to manage and play your local music collection. It’s extendable through the use of plugins and many widgets make use of FooScript to offer an even deeper level of control.

Audio playback is supported by FFmpeg alongside multiple options for output including ALSA and PipeWire, with more to come.