Quick shout-out to Grayjay: An app to watch videos on any platform - reducing the power of individual services. The Software is open-source and can be found here: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

I will test this out for myself and hope someone here finds this useful.

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        If there was a Linux approach to smartphones, I’d be interested. Instead, it’s a choice between two large corporations. And one of them receives the majority of its income from advertising. So that’s why I chose what I perceived to be the lesser of the two evils.

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          The lesser of two evils is Android as it’s like they put closed-source software on top of open source software (see AOSP) whereas on iPhone it’s all closed.

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          There are Linux phones, like the Pinephone and postmarketOS, but they’re not as polished as Andrpoid and iOS

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      Louis says somewhere in a comment on the presentation video that they won’t have (at least for the time being) an iOS app because Apple wouldn’t allow it in the Store, so there’s that.

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        Hopefully once the alternative App Stores come about (thanks to EU legislation), it might appear in the future.

        Or web app approach (like Voyager does with Lemmy).

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          alternative app stores are only supposed to be in eu

          apple is looking forward to region lock this side loading facility

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      I wonder, are there any decent open source apps available for IOS? Asking for a friend, an Android envious friend, (actually my wife)

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      I don’t see the option either. Need more options like this and Piped (Piped has Yattee on iOS).