last night, my pixel came! I flashed Graphene and I am now running it smoothly!

I am in the process of downloading apps and I have a question: I am interested in at least using discord on this device. It is absolutely one of my most used apps. On PC, I use legchord. Im a big fan. Is there something similar available for mobile? and I have a similar question for Whatsapp, and FB messenger (although those are less important)?

  • bloogoose@lemmy.zipdeleted by creator
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    4 months ago

    Genuine question, why go to the trouble of switching to a privacy focused os then install Meta apps? Do you just not like Google?

    • Brutticus@midwest.socialOP
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      4 months ago

      For one, I was getting really irritated about the apps my google device wouldnt let me delete, and also the apps I wanted to side load. That being said, I definitely don’t like meta. I have an app on my PC called caprine. I wouldn’t download first party meta apps, but these are the apps my friends use to talk, so if there is a workaround, I was just asking about that

      • ropatrick@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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        4 months ago

        FYI you can use a combination of Shizuku and Canta to get rid of pretty much any Google app on an Android phone. Useful tip I got here recently.

        Pay it forward.

              • bloogoose@lemmy.zipdeleted by creator
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                4 months ago

                Yeah you’re right. Let’s just keep using all these apps and building our technological lives on top of these awful corp’s infrastructures and platforms. I mean we have to, right? We can’t inconvenience ourselves in the short term to find alternative solutions, can we?

                It’s so frustrating watching the world fall apart when we’ve tried nothing and are all our of ideas.