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F-Droid gets its biggest update in a decade with new UI and smoother app installs
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/f-droid-gets-its-biggest-update-in-a-decade-with-new-ui-and-smoother-app-installs/
Replying to @return2ozma@lemmy.world
Nice. There’s just a FOSS alternative for almost everything these days. I get 80% of my apps from F-Droid.
Same. Its great!
The only non foss apps that I use are banking apps and whatsapp (forced to use it…). Everything else is foss.
Replying to @morto@piefed.social
Look at Beeper as a alternative, let’s you bridge your WhatsApp chats.
Replying to @NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
The only way you should trust anything bridging is if you self host it.
Matrix with WhatsApp bridge is the only way to properly use that.
Replying to @hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz
Absolutely, make sure to self host the bridge yourself on your own hardware!
Replying to @NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
I don’t take advantage of Beeper nearly as much as I should, I saw that they give you a Matrix handle when you sign up which I think is cool.
They give you a Matrix handle because everything is Matrix. The problem is Beeper is nothing to do with Beeper but exactly the kind of thing we saw with Apple: malice. They don’t want you to use their apps this way, and for that reason, it just sucks to use. Plus you’re lowering the privacy of whatever platform you’re using to that of Matrix.
Replying to @NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
WA bans your account for using it.
Curious. Do they easily find you that you use it?
If meta automatically detects that you use beeper and bans you then there is no point using it with WA. But in this case beeper wouldn’t advertise bridging to WA, right?