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Григорий Клюшников

Mastodon app got a "non-free net" anti-feature tag because it talks to joinmastodon.org... Oh and also because it uses FCM, the Google push notification service. Only on devices that have Google services, so, like, there aren't any privacy implications for that really. But without the closed-source Google library, because that would've also meant "non-free dependencies". F-Droid maintainers were very confused when they found out that I reverse engineered the Google library and made a first-ever 100% open-source FCM-enabled app.

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sam henri gold

@grishka smh. roughly 100% of endpoints that an app would need to enable features are closed source. that “anti feature” makes NO sense to me.

lucasmz ∞

@grishka @samhenrigold moshidon doesnt have that anti feature and does talk to FCM, maybe look into it

sam henri gold

@lucasmz lmao i’m the lead product designer on the app they forked from and @grishka is the engineer

lucasmz ∞

@samhenrigold @grishka sorry, is this the mastodon app itself? because yeah I can see them putting a flag for the joinmastodon.org non free service.

Codeschubse

@lucasmz @grishka @samhenrigold Moshidon can't do push notifications though. At least not on my phone.

Григорий Клюшников

Codeschubse, do you have Google services or at least something like microG?

lucasmz ∞

@Codeschubse @grishka @samhenrigold it works fine for me. Maybe you're using a broken UnifiedPush setup? ntfy.sh hardly works.

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