First of all, to anyone downvoting my Comments about /e/ being a piece of shit, because…

  • they advertise themselves as degoogled, but instead let you connect to Google/Microsoft/etc services

  • replace all the propriatery not at all Secure Services from Google, with… Drumroll please… Propriatery and not at all Secure Services from themselves and actively encourage it.

  • They are For-profit

  • and being MORE out of date then even Fairphones stock roms.

… I told you so. Dm your Instance admin, pay them to send the DB entries of your Downvotes on a Thumb drive (or anything else from SSD to 3.5 inchHDD, depending on your preferences), and shove it up your rectum.

But a TL;DR:

/E/ is not Private. They just switch one bad comany to another one.

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    10 days ago

    I’m not terribly knowledgeable in the difference here, is it because FUTO disallow commercial use in their license?

    It’s because other open source applications like NewPipe and InnerTune were cloned and filled with ads before being put on the Play Store. When new users searched for these applications after a recommendation, they’d install the fake Play Store versions because they had no idea what they were doing and end up with unsafe apps on their device. Grayjay’s license allows FUTO to take legal action against anyone who attempts to do this with their application, therefore acting as a deterrent that will hopefully improve the security of new users and ensure they are not getting a bad first impression of a more privacy-preserving alternative to big tech.