Vielen dank!

Thank you very much for the info!

There seems to be a general consesnus that feddiverse users don’t want anything to do with meta and that instances will defederate with threads. I’m curious if the majority will follow this trend to avoid yet another EEE, or if there will be some exceptions. I bet meta will be open to pay good money to instance admins for “colaboration” if the instance is big enough.

It’s hard for me to say because I haven’t lived in another country other than my own for any amount of time. It’s funny though how all the answers are countries in the west :)) Send some love to the balkans please.

1984 much?

very interesting. I honestly never considered going without microG. I wonder if it’s viable for my usecase.

It’s very interesting that OP doesn’t use microG. How do you deal with no notifications? Do you use apps with custom (non-google) notification support? What are the disadvantages?

Here’s a list of apps I use that are not on OP’s list:

• ACCA (root required) | Custom charge cycle
• Antenna Pod | Podcasts
• Birthday Adapter | Pulls birthdays out of contacts and pushes them to your calendar
• Catima | For cupon card and stuff with barcodes
• DuckDuckGo browser | very minimal browser
• GadgetBridge | FOSS client for smart watches (I used it for a MiBand 6)
• Glider for HackerNews | Hackernews mobile client
• LibreOffice viewer | for viewing non-pdf documents
• Mullvad VPN | Privacy respecting VPN with a flat monthly fee
• Notally | Local only note taking app
• OctoDroid | github client
• OpenBoard | keyboard
• OrganicMaps | Ligheweight maps based on OSM
• PDF doc scan | Document Scanner
• QuickWeather | Simple Light weather app (GadgetBridge compatible)
• RadioDroid | Internet radio player
• RH voice | TTS engine
• Signal | Privacy respecting chatting app
• Simple Text Editor | mainly for viewing files
• Usage Direct | Phone usage monitor

Compared to OP, I do use MicroG with LineageOS. I also use quite a few closed source apps (banking apps, uber-like, car/bike sharing, some local apps for public transport, chatting apps, navigation, etc) but I do try my best to avoid them if I can. From time to time I log into Facebook / Instagram or use Google Maps in the browser, but don’t have the apps installed.