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is Fossify a good alternative? (jlai.lu)
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Hi, Is Fossify https://github.com/FossifyOrg a good google alternative?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

I daily drive it for months. It just works for me :)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours ago

I think they are very good. Don't expect any fancy features though. The gallery for example only shows pictures in directories and has very basic editing capabilities. There is no album management or automatic backup of any sort.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Hi, having an Android phone as secondary, I would say: best would be a custom rom like grapheneos (Pixel only), lineageos or e/os. They come with plenty alternative apps from the getgo.

Second best solution would be to debloat your android and to search for substitutes in the F-Droid store.

But judgeing from the fossify site their apps look modern, well made and are available in F-Droid. Give them a try and report :-)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Most Fossify apps are on F-Droid. They used to be known under the name “Simple Mobile Tools” and presented with orange app icons. The original author sold their brand/their userbase to an adware company, but the project lives on in form of this community-driven fork.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Ah. That is why the apps looked familiar. Was this fork quite recently? I still have the older apps installed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago

The sale and fork happened in December 2023. So you probably want to switch at some point.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] Cheradenine 1 points 5 hours ago

It ended there too I think, as far as tibbi was concerned. Iirc that was his only comment.

When he partnered with that shady company to release that shitty phone it was the start of the end.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Welcome to Lemmy!

Here are a few pointers for you

Feel free if you have any questions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

This is standard on any new phone for me:

Debloat and degoogle using uad-ng
install all the Fossify apps