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submitted 1 year ago by ToxicWaste@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Quick shout-out to Grayjay: An app to watch videos on any platform - reducing the power of individual services. The Software is open-source and can be found here: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

I will test this out for myself and hope someone here finds this useful.

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[–] StarsBypass@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

A shame it is not available for iOS (at least I can see).

[–] Tanya@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your mistake chosing an iPhone.

[–] StarsBypass@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If there was a Linux approach to smartphones, I’d be interested. Instead, it’s a choice between two large corporations. And one of them receives the majority of its income from advertising. So that’s why I chose what I perceived to be the lesser of the two evils.

[–] Quintus@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

The lesser of two evils is Android as it's like they put closed-source software on top of open source software (see AOSP) whereas on iPhone it's all closed.

[–] eclipse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

GrapheneOS?

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

There are Linux phones, like the Pinephone and postmarketOS, but they're not as polished as Andrpoid and iOS

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Apple actively sabotages these kinds of projects. You're on the wrong device.

[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Louis says somewhere in a comment on the presentation video that they won't have (at least for the time being) an iOS app because Apple wouldn't allow it in the Store, so there's that.

[–] StarsBypass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully once the alternative App Stores come about (thanks to EU legislation), it might appear in the future.

Or web app approach (like Voyager does with Lemmy).

[–] notenoughbutter@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

alternative app stores are only supposed to be in eu

apple is looking forward to region lock this side loading facility

[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wonder, are there any decent open source apps available for IOS? Asking for a friend, an Android envious friend, (actually my wife)

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

https://monal-im.org/

Is a nice XMPP client for iOS. But yeah Apple is pretty hostile to open-source developers.

[–] Xiaz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t see the option either. Need more options like this and Piped (Piped has Yattee on iOS).