Well today was a pretty great ad for open social web, wasnt it?
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You recent update requires google services. My phone is de-googled. It doesn't work on it anymore .
You guys sold out to big tech.
They were never not part of big tech. They advertise themselfs as open web supporters but were never open source. Huge shame
Was it? There is a social media app that advertises itself as open but still isn't open source
that's the cost of publishing to AppStore and GPlay - if they were only on FDroid, they could've opened up some time ago.
Or publish an app with the Nostr protocol, so you can use clients like nostr:npub10r8xl2njyepcw2zwv3a6dyufj4e4ajx86hz6v4ehu4gnpupxxp7stjt2p8