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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 11:54:09 JST Evan Prodromou

   If we can build an open social network, we can have open source mobile devices. #TheDreamOfThe2000sIsAlive

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 20:33:33 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Brooke Vibber :blobcatcoffee:

     @brooke yeah, agreed. I think the way to slice this Gordian knot is with PWAs, but maybe there's another trick. Regardless, it feels like a very parallel struggle with federated social networks.

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     Brooke Vibber :blobcatcoffee: (brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 20:33:34 JST Brooke Vibber :blobcatcoffee:

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     @evan i feel like the only thing that realistically prevents that is the combination of:

     1) companies and governments offering services through proprietary android and ios apps, without a standard web interface

     2) those companies distributing their android apps exclusively through the google play store, which is not open source

     3) google not making it easy to install google play services "legitimately" on a random aosp phone without doing something hinky to sideload it