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TL;DR: Both; but it depends on your threat model who and what you want to protect against.

There’s no guarantee it’s more private, more secure

The code is opensource. We can independently audit it. There even exists forks, like Molly.

won’t be sold again.

Unlikely imo.

Maybe following: https://gitlab.com/fmd-foss/fmd-android

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ActivityPub was one of the first and is a W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build and enjoy a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security) recommendation: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

Literally what Bluesky did:

Source: https://xkcd.com/927/

He left WhatsApp after they started enshitifying it. Signal is what WhatsApp was supposed to be: a private messenger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Acton#WhatsApp

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Why do you use so much AI content?

I would like to point out that this video (the one by TheHatedOne) provides no sources and presents events that are yet to be proven as the one and only “truth.”

Disclaimer: I’m a GrapheneOS user, but I reject the idea of spreading information and selling it as the truth without providing a single piece of evidence.

and the developers had ignored any complaints on it.

Source? I searched their GitHub issues, and it doesn’t seem like they do.

https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/issues/10560

A very awkward decision. GrapheneOS, with its compatibility layer and sandboxed Google Play Services, Google Play Store, and Android Auto, should have better overall support.

Seems fishy.

They’re not actually a domain registrar, and you do not really own the domain.

We’re not actually a domain name registration service, we’re a customer to these. We sit in between the domain name registration service and you, acting as a privacy shield.

https://njal.la/faq/

I’m currently using Porkbun as the registrar of my choice. They are not good, but they’re a lot better than every other provider I was able to find.

Can you provide anything factual that supports this statement?

Also, don’t feel down because of the downvotes; some people are apparently afraid of “(…) polite and fruitful discussion” and would rather suppress opinions they disagree with.

Another way to think about this whole privacy debate is something I see way too rarely in non-European and English-speaking communities: data protection. Sometimes you don’t care if others know this or that, but knowledge is power, and knowledge about you is power over you.

Example: An employer might not employ you because they find out that you have mental health issues. In Germany, an employer cannot legally request this information, but if you were transparent about it from the beginning, you might have a hard time finding a job.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recht_auf_Lüge

Robert Braxman is infamous for spreading disinformation on YouTube and other social platforms. If you watch a couple of his videos and fact-check the statements he makes, you will quickly realize that a lot of it is wrong. One video I remember quite well was where he talked about “service workers” in browsers and said that they are a critical privacy issue that would affect them all. He also promotes his own products quite often as the “ultimate solution” for privacy, and I seem to remember that his E2EE messenger wasn’t actually end-to-end encrypted (can’t find the source, sadly). Therefore, I do not expect the BraX3 phone to be any good, and it directly supports him too, as far as I’m aware. I actually criticized IodéOS in the past for partnering with them (I nowadays assume their whole goal was just to expand their business).

I strongly disencourage buying those.