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The Boost android client for Lemmy is displaying these dark pattern ads pretending to be system notifications. What security/privacy conscious Lemmy clients do you recommend? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by golden_zealot@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] hackris@lemmy.ml 82 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Please. For the love of god, NEVER use a proprietary app to use a piece of FOSS software. I think it's kind of sad that we have this amazing FOSS social network and people use fucking proprietary software to use it.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

i use sync. there's nothing even close to the quality of the client. (The onlt client that implements material you in a fun and usable way, sync is usable one-handed)
I had been using Liftoff for a while (before switching to Sync as soon as it came out), which i quite liked but it feels a lot worse than sync

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

(The onlt client that implements material you in a fun and usable way, sync is usable one-handed)

Touchscreen keyboards and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

[–] pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Open-source it a better interface then.

Until it's as useful as at least Sync for Lemmy, people will use 3rd party proprietary apps

[–] hackris@lemmy.ml -3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I mean isn't Lemmy licensed under the AGPL? I'm just asking because AFAIK a proprietary client is not even allowed under this license.

[–] SeriousBug@infosec.pub 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You couldn't make a proprietary server. Client is fine, AGPL doesn't apply when you are accessing the server over a public API.

[–] hackris@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Thank you, didn't know this :)

[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

AGPL doesn’t apply when you are accessing the server over a public API.

The AGPL does apply when interacting with the covered work (Lemmy server) over a network. A proprietary client would still nevertheless be required, upon request, to furnish you with the source code of the covered work it is talking to over the network (the Lemmy server).

[–] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 9 months ago

Do you really know what you are talking about? I think you're bullshitting. We are talking about propriety client which doesnt modified the source codes of the server.

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world -5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There are a bunch of good FOSS Lemmy clients, which I'd argue are as good as Sync or Boost (I can't know for sure since I don't use proprietary software, I judge by the screenshots).

Jerboa sucks, I'll give you that. But both Voyager and Eternity are high quality clients that work amazingly well and are constantly updated. They have plenty of features and are very configurable.

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

That's silly and I'm a long time Linux user.