That’s really weird, wonder what happened there, if the image was somehow corrupt or anything

sss, ss sssss, bzzt

Incredibly based.
Come to think of it, it’s sad how we’ve got so accustomed to be suggested Google Authenticator and the other big corp data funnel 2FA apps by the services that support it

You can have push notifications, right now there’s a unified push fork on the same Molly F-droid repository

Agree 1000% on the timer thing, it’s so incredibly annoying exactly because it seems such an obvious feature to have

There’s also text books that could be considered, they usually include listening exercises, though I can’t say how good that is as a method for self learning

It’s doing a real lot of stuff!

Yes, that’s a good point, being careful goes a long way, though exploits can really come from anywhere.

It’s not a bad thing to have an antivirus, especially now that we see more viruses made for Linux specifically. I still don’t worry much myself, because the number isn’t that huge, but if there was an easy to use antivirus GUI app I think I’d try it

An unsubstantiated reddit thread does not a story make

There is none yet that I know of.
But I think something has to be said as well: the problem with copying to the T the most popular social networks is that those are designed to be deliberately predatory and addictive, many parts of their design is implemented in alternatives without even thinking what it really means for the users, because it has become second nature to us and they also feel good, but are mostly detrimental exactly for that and I’m the first to say that I keep falling for it, spending hours on end on my phone. Think infinite scrolling, instant notifications, etc.
While it’s good to have the option, if we want a healthier social media experience, it doesn’t suffice to decentralize it, we also need to think of at least better defaults, then let the users decide for themselves if they want a more addicting experience

It’s this:

From this website: https://surfshark.com/research/chart/data-hungry-language-apps

I believe the consensus is that it was deliberately misleading, but I should find the post that was made on here again

Edit: here’s the discussion https://lemmy.one/comment/3233478

That’s not to say that Duolingo is privacy respecting, of course, far from it. But it may not be as bad as it was made out to be

Ahh, of course, I should have noticed

Refuses to elaborate further

Leaves

Luckily for me, I saw this coming years ago and avoided this app.

I did too, but because I’m broke lol.

You can have zero expectations of privacy with closed source apps

That is true, but for the front end applications, if that is open source and has sound encryption then the server could even be proprietary, it won’t be able to break the encryption, so your data would be safe, maybe not so much for some metadata though. In this case the apps were changed to be all AGPL as I understand, so that should be ok.

Agree with all the rest, don’t like the maintainer’s attitude.

Edit: I was wrong, even the app is source available now (CC Noncommercial), not exactly good, but better than proprietary I guess

In terms of privacy, nothing would change, it’s still the same as ever so I think the recommendation can absolutely stay up, even proprietary apps are suggested on Privacy Guides.
In terms of software freedom, this is a terrible change and I really dislike projects moving to source-available models, in this case, as the other commenters said there, I don’t even think it’s legal, unless every contributor has signed a CLA in the past.
I feel for not wanting to be explioted by corporate, but they could have gone the dual licensing path and instead chose to restrict everyone’s freedom, even us users. Now that doesn’t mean forks can’t be made I believe, it’s just that anyone who does that, won’t ever be able to sell the service which could be unsustainable since they made the server CC-BY-NC-SA, that’s a big turn off for those who want to host that

They’re not private… to them, after all

I bet the fire noodle could pass through the hole

I’m not sure exactly, but it is either because they still spoof the mobile app or because they don’t reach the API usage quota

If you make an alias for each account there should be no trivial way to correlate them together.
But I think there’s a problem, making all the effort to go anonymous by signing up through Tor (and I assume using your email client always through Tor) would be kind of wasted because you gave a link all the information they need to tie everything back to you: the aliasing service which:

• knows your real email address
• may know that you are using Tor
• knows the websites you signed up on
• can know part, or all, of your actual personal information, which may very well be leaked in the email exchanges you make on the sensitive alias

So you need to trust your aliasing service not to snoop on your emails

For now yes, but some instances are still running, the list seems updated well enough

Only thing that I know of which comes close is Librera FD with annotations, otherwise you’ll have to run Linux/Termux + Libreoffice Draw (if that’s even possible)

If you’re gonna RTFM me like that at least do it properly https://lmddgtfy.net/?q=what is openid 😝

I asked because from the name it looked too generic to find with a simple search, but I guess I was wrong, I just overthought it

What’s openID?

Fair, even though I care about that for better assurance that it does respect my privacy, this is the next best thing

Nice one, however it isn’t open source right?

That’s an alternative service, not a frontend, buuut, I did make my first post there today :)

Not even a Jitsi-only account?

Looks very interesting, I’ll keep an eye on it!