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Yeah India is rough for solo-travelling fems. Most fems I've met who've been to India without issues traveled with masc companions (partners / friends / travel buddies met on the road).

I can confirm that continental South-East Asia is a lot safer.

Nah, Egypt has too close a relationship with Saudi Arabia to meaningfully change their stance towards Iran.

I NEED that image, badly

That's very understandable, people shouldn't need to have deep technical knowledge to pick a social media app...

Anyway if you do want to see that stuff this is where: https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Eternity

Yeah I've heard that, but I don't really buy it. It would be a massive vulnerability that Google would have every interest in patching. They're good at security when they want to be, and they definitely don't want to give their direct competitor any data for free. The more likely option is that people simply give Facebook permission to use the mic, for stuff like voice messages, and Facebook abuses it. Plus we're talking about open source hobbyist projects, not one of the biggest corpos in the world.

I had heard of it and not given it much thought, but looking at it now it might be the best looking one I've seen so far. Shame that it's not open source though. Sync is closed source as well to be fair, but I'd rather not switch to another closed source one.

The problem is seemingly it's been 5 months since anybody's touched the code, not just 5 months since the last release. There are issues that have been open for weeks or months without any of the devs even replying to them. It's not a great look, at least... The core Lemmy project is still in pretty active development, clients need to keep up with that. I know they're hobby projects and the devs have no obligation to work on it, but I can't really trust an app that might break for good at the next Lemmy release.

Newer versions of Android are fairly well locked down in terms of permissions and access to personal that, and that's just because Google wants apps to use its own proprietary APIs to do it, like the Advertising ID. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the tracking a website can do through Firefox mobile and the tracking a native app can do. Also Firefox mobile AFAIK still hasn't implemented full site containers, so potentially there's the extra risk of cross-site tracking.

For images I was just being lazy, I checked the settings and there's the "auto expand media" option which does show the full images. It still doesn't look great to me compared to native apps though.

Yeah I don't expect any app to support the emoji picker which is a custom Hexbear feature. I do like the look of Thunder actually, and it seems in active development. I might give it a try.

I just don't like the default mobile UI tbh, it's not nearly as pleasant to use as the most basic native app. Images not showing in the feed is already a big drawback by itself. I use it for posting sometimes because of the emoji picker, but otherwise I just don't see the point of it. A native app is kinda sandboxed by definition, Hexbear doesn't have ads (lmao, imagine), and any link opens in Fennec where I do have uBlock anyway...

Is there another web frontend I'm not aware of that's significantly better for mobile?

Edit: also, jokes aside, I don't get the point of this hostility towards native apps, at least for stuff I use regularly. The mobile UX is still shite for like half of all websites, including big corporate ones, why wouldn't I use a better native UI instead?

I'm also a big fan of Infinity, I actually still use it by building it from source with a custom API token. My issue with Eternity though is that it seems abandoned, the repo hasn't been updated in over 5 months. I'm trying to move away from Sync precisely because it is abandonware...