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The appview needs to index the relay contents to build a view of the whole network, the relay is just a type of CDN, and is NOT that expensive. There are multiple individuals maintaining full copies right now, while the network is at double digit millions of users. The relay is by far less expensive.

Great, but how much do these people pay to maintain a relay of the entire network? I bet a lot more than for a fediverse server that only has to maintain a small fraction of the whole network.

There is another problem: these other relays are all copies of the Bluesky relay, where the official app publishes the messages of its users, so they are not independent from each other; if I publish my posts on a relay other than Bluesky’s I will not be able to communicate with them.

The relay is very expensive, it collects and receives messages from the whole network.

The appview it’s not the problem, that’s just an user of the relay.

See this article

Essentially it’s a centralized platform. Independent PDS cannot work without a big expensive relay managed by a large corporation

Why ? If I can give the same money to Murena, Iodé or Fairphone ?

The majority of people don’t need so much security, for example I don’t use SELinux even on desktop.

If you can, get a Pixel and install Graphene on it. If not, degoogle your device as best as you can, use a vpn, a password manager and a private email provider.

I’m sorry but I won’t give Google more money, I think they have enough billions of dollars already.

I prefer to support business projects and developers who are for open source and the independence from the Big Tech

My goal is to code basic buttons and understand how operating systems implement the way they draw windows for applications.

So do you want to program a GUI yourself, and not using a library, correct ?

For that you need a ROM that supports signature spoofing, but it should be possible, just not for the common user, sadly

I understand, but if the application opens the browser you have to make it believe that it is opening Chrome

Have you tried changing the user agent ? You need an extension for that

I use blockchain.com

I am on Voyager and I can search posts

Last time I tried FreeOffice it had an important feature missing on Linux (and maybe Mac ?idk): you can’t write formulas and equations

OnlyOffice is Estonian

More or less it’s the same for Android. Always subscribe using the browser

At the end the effects are the same of a kill switch