Depends on the use case. I played around with it a lot and came to the conclusion that I don’t like flatpaks and the base system is not flexible enough for me.

I use it as a self-updating desktop for my parents tho,. For that it’s absolutely perfect.

@kescusay Just out of interest, what are the “special-purpose activities that can’t be done on my Linux laptop” if you don’t mind sharing?

@poweruser Sadly it doesn’t have an AMOLED screen (cheap samsung tablet) but as a last resort it might be worth a shot. Thanks

@kionite231 Was the first thing I tried. Termux even has a “wake lock” function but that also doesn’t seem to prevent it.

@SomeBoyo Yeah that’s the normal devices guarantee you also get with normal android on pixel devices. So in terms of longevity GrapheneOS doesn’t offer any advantages. There are other advantages of course.

@SaltyIceteaMaker I installed miniflux, a rss reader, on it. Sadly android constantly kills the internet connecting when the screen turns off, so I can’t use it as a server to access it from my other devices. I have tried everything I could find to prevent that from happening.

@SomeBoyo What “long term support”? Official GrapheneOS releases for a device end when the official Android support ends because they don’t support hardware where the firmware is not updated anymore. Or did that change recently?

@hardypart I have no inside info obviously but why would he join? He is making bank with photopea, why support potential competition?

@TheYang Exactly! Came here to say this. Everybody actively using chromium based browsers is a part of the problem.

@Predator There is also Stealth https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.cosmos.unreddit/

@snowbell

Check out this video https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=EAogtqyN22M for some more context.

@ElectroVagrant Yes it works like that on kbin, at least to an extend. I am not sure when exactly it gets available tho. Besides that, as other people said, there seems to be a federation bug at the moment which seems to cause this problem.

Doesn’t always work tho. Opening https://kbin.social/m/android@lemdro.id for examples gives me a 404.

There is also https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ in case you are not aware which supports A LOT of different services besides twitter.

It’s different. From a software standpoint much more mature since it’s older and doesn’t have to manage the technical depth that comes with the fediverse, since it’s not a part of that.
The culture is also different. Not sure how to describe it but if I had to I would also call it “more mature”. Deeper conversations and the different structure of the sites makes it different. There are also no moderators or freely created “magazines” (for now).
Have a look at it and feel free to message me if you are interested in creating an account.

It’s not wired at all. I am active on both and the culture on both sites is completely different, so I totally understand when people decide that one culture fits them better.

The RIF dev is making an app for tildes.net