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If you use mobile apps, I strongly encourage you to figure out how to pay app developers who publish full source code, under free licenses.
Especially those who go to the effort to make their apps work on the Mobile GNU OS, as well as the duopoly mobile OS (Android and iOS). So you can keep using them if you escape Goggle and grApple's clutches, by getting a Mobile GNU device like the PinePhone or Librem5 (and hopefully many more to come)
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz My PinePhone is non-Gnu (it doesn't use glibc) because it uses postmarketOS, which is musl libc.
..."Or Musl / Linux as some of us prefer to call it." 😉
If you make mobile apps for a living, I strongly encourage you to figure out how to make your apps work on the Mobile GNU OS, as well as the duopoly mobile OS (Android and iOS). So people can keep using them if they escape Goggle and grApple's clutches, by getting a Mobile GNU device like the PinePhone or Librem5 (and hopefully many more to come).
Hopefully you'll also publish full source code for your apps under a free license, ideally a copyleft one.
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@adb
> I like "goggle" and "grapple"
It's an old culture jamming tactic. As Naomi Klein explained in No Logo, branding works by creating strong emotional associations with the "brand identity". The more there are, the powerful the brand gets.
Those associations don't have to be positive either. So using their name and logo when criticising them works too. All publicity is good publicity, as the old saying goes.
Hacking or "jamming" those brand elements OTOH ...
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It's easy to do this crudely; Shitify or crApple. But I'm always trying to come up with a corruption of the brand name that folds some critique into the way I write it.
Goggle points to the fact that it's a surveillance company.
scAmazon points to the fact that the company's platform is full of scams, by design;
https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/10/view-a-sku/
SS, instead of the newsletter platform's full name, points to the fact it actively promotes actual neo-nazis;
https://blog.disintermedia.net.nz/ghosting-substack/
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I'm not entirely satisfied with grApple or Spitify. Hopefully I can come up with something cleverer. But I still prefer using these to helping them build their technofeudalist brands, even as I'm trying to tear them down.
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If you work on a Mobile GNU OS, like @postmarketOS or @mobian, I strongly encourage you to make it as easy as humanly possible for app developers to make one app version for Mobile GNU OS. Which works on any variant, rather than having to play whack-a-mole with distro-specific bugs.
Bonus points for coming together to create a dev environment that can spit out versions for many different mobile OS. As many as possible.
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Hmm, ok. When I finally figure out how to install the current version of @postmarketOS on my Pinephone, I'll give that a try.
@linuxphoneapps @strypey @postmarketOS @mobian @linmob@linuxmobile.social @linmob@lemmy.ml A lot of these issues will be fixed organically if selling #FreeSoftware becomes more normal, and we figure out a good common way for developers to charge for their apps. Donations and volunteering will only go so far, and with all the existing bills and subscriptions and the broken fiat monetary system, adding another donation on top is not going to do it unless people (including me) are required to pay for the app to use it, even if just once, even if just $1 like how WhatsApp used to do once.
If we all do these things, as people who use and develop apps, and fully-libre mobile OS, we can bring about a radical change. Replacing the surveillance appliances devices we're all carrying around, serving the interests of enshittified corporate vendors, with palmtop computers that instead serve us, the people who carry them.
We can do this. We just need to work together.
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