GigglyBobble

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[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

BwMessenger was launched in 2020 and Android Playstore shows 50k downloads. That doesn't seem like mass-adoption. I don't see anything replacing WhatsApp in Germany, unfortunately.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Calendar app devs will love the migration project.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Why doesn't the screenshot show the prompt but only its title? Unnecessarirly suspicious since it wouldn't even be hard to fake it.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

Applicable and economic solutions are needed now though. The tech isn't there and yet the moron of a Minister tries to force it, no matter the cost.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 43 points 8 months ago

Damn right he will! Wait, who again?

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You're right, scratch that.

I've just never downloaded apks directly from Github and probably shouldn't recommend it for the reasons OP gave wrt keyboard apps.

I got confused by that issue about naming conflicts with the original OpenBoard. If you have installed that one, you need make your own debug build to run them in parallel.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Unfortunately, it's an abandoned project that hasn't gotten updates for 2 years.

There's an active fork ~~but no release yet, you can only install by building it yourself~~: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No, they can't since I don't have a Google mail address. Even if I had, they'd have a harder time building a social graph when I communicate with others outside of Gmail.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 11 points 8 months ago

That's the superior approach and Firefox introduced it far earlier than Google addressed the problem.

Why OP is blindly arguing in that corp's favor and ignoring all the reasoning provided here, is beyond me. Shilling?

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

What a stupid thing to say.

Whatever your favorite (and probably shitty) proprietary or open source messaging service - not everybody uses it. But hey, everyone has email, so let's kill that.

BTW since you said encryption is important to you: your walled-garden messaging service has a much easier time profiling you and your friends than they would in a heterogenous environment like email. They don't need the content anyway, just metadata.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago

make sure you don’t do the XY problem.

Thanks for the link. That's funny because translating Y to X is basically the core task when developing client-specific solutions.

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