Suyu is the most popular + actively developed afaik.
https://suyu.dev/

They host their code on their own Forgejo instance:
https://git.suyu.dev/explore/repos

Which is more DMCA proof then Github/Gitlab.

I hope ForgeFed will go into production soon,
then we can synchronize the code in between multiple Forgejo instances in a federated fashion.
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/59

• Forgejo: But ForgeFed, it’s federation software is still under development
• Radicle: But they have unnecessary ties with crypto stuff

Wikiless?
The original project was taken down by Wikipedia, but this appears to be an active fork of it:
https://github.com/Metastem/wikiless

Legacy software still requires maintenance.
Legacy dependencies still require to be used in new projects.
Dual booting multiple times a day is not feasible.

For those reasons none of my co-workers can fully switch to Linux.

I write PHP on the daily and don’t understand the hate it gets :/

At least I can work on Linux at home while my co-workers are stuck on Windows with their C#

Yes that is the actual site.

LuckyPatcher has been around forever,
and has a good reputation + community.

Never seen anyone mention anything that it might contain malicious code.

The developer receives revenue through donations and showing ads on the site.

Sadly the project is not open source though.
My guess would be to prevent the hacks / patches it uses,
from being patched / made un-usable.

To be 100% sure though,
you’d have to de-compile the app,
and reverse engineer the source code,
which is a very tedious and time consuming task.

Never ever would I consider playing a game with kernel level access.

I guess they saw the DMCA coming,
since their Forgejo has been up for a while now,
initially as a mirror, now as the main repo.

But starting out on Gitlab/Github,
helped them with getting the initial exposure to attract new devs to the project.

Which they successfully gained,
so I understand why they did it,
and glad it all panned out as they hoped for :)

You can try to convince the Discord server moderators to bridge their servers to Matrix with something like T2Bot:
https://t2bot.io/discord/

That’s what I did when I was running a Discord server,
worked nicely in both directions.

2 issues I have with this:

1. Google is one of the biggest spy-ware companies out there
2. Due to 1. I would not be suprised if they participate in Harvest now, decrpyt later
   (regarding users who think they will be safe under a VPN)

I’d consider taking another ISP,
you know, just one who is not known for using you as a product and shoving spyware into every nook and cranny they can find…

I never heard about Threema before,
quickly glanced at it’s Github repo,
but I think I prefer Matrix/Element over it.

Threema seems to largely rely om GMS (Google Messaging Service),
meaning that most messages will go through Google’s servers,
albeit end-to-end encrypted for now,
I would not be suprised if Google would participate in “Harvest now, Decrypt later”.

Wasn’t aware of that, would love to hear about it if someome could shine some more light onto the matter :)

If that’s the case, I have to stop using/recommending Session

Sign-up still requires a phone number… -.-"

Checkout Matrix/Element or Session,
there you can actually enjoy privacy by signing-up without a phone number/email:

• https://matrix.org/
• https://element.io/
• ~~https://getsession.org/~~

Edit: Due to Session’s company residing in Australia,
which appareantly has bad privacy laws,
i don’t feel comfortable with recommending it anymore

Take a look for yourself with a rooted phone.

Blocker will show you all the recievers/services/activities/providers the app uses,
and will allow you to block them.

https://github.com/lihenggui/blocker

Apps often still work correctly with about 80-90% of their recievers/services/providers blocked, since they’re spyware, which doesn’t add functionality to the app.

XPrivacyLua will allow you to lie to apps when they request sensitive data.

Aditionally it will show you timestamps of what it lied about, to which apps, reveiling what they try to collect on you.

https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua

ClassyShark3xodus allows you to decompile and scan apps on the fly,
to check which well known trackers are embedded into it.

https://bitbucket.org/oF2pks/fdroid-classyshark3xodus

Idk if these apps still do it,
since I have not used them for years,
but that’s how I learned about many things like:

• 9GAG contained a face detector service at some point.
• Facebook Messenger requests access to your microphone, even when you are not calling with it.

It depends on what you’ll run on it.

LineageOS in itself is good/private.
However the GApps/GMS are not.

I’d recommend replacing GMS with MicroG if you need that for the apps you use,
which still talks to Google,
but in a minimal way.

YouTube isn’t private either,
but Grayjay/NewPipe are.

Android TV is not free though.

You pay with yourself,
your interests / watch habits,
all being collected and sold to the best bidder for “personalized ads”…

Pair it with a Real-Debrid subscription,
then it’s not leeching,
and with premium speeds ;)