A few of mine :

• AndOTP : A good app for OTP that actually let’s you backup your keys and move them easily and securely to a new phone
• Blokada : A system wide adblocker for Android. 4000000 ads blocked so far on my phone
• YouTube Vanced: Not really a “hidden” gem but a cool app nonetheless. I wish people knew you could get an ad free YouTube experience on mobile. It also includes sponsor block so you really get straight to content. Also let’s you get a YT popup player and shutdown the screen with the video still playing.
• F-Droid an Android open source app market. Often includes apps that are not allowed on Google market.

Android runs on a unix kernel.

I personally think an open source android rom is a good middle ground between running a full linux OS and google’s Android.

I don’t know what roms are good right now though.

I would probably go for a fairphone and install the non google rom: https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/9979154556817-Google-free-Android

Or check if your current phone is supported by any open source Rom.

In any case you will most likely have a lot less apps since you would have only access to non google play services apps. There is a fairly decent choice of apps on F-Droid but your experience will remain limited.

To some extent I think you can do most of that on Lemmy.

You can upload images for your posts (not sure for short videos) and cross-post them to other communities.

Edit: I don’t know kbin.social but I suspect it would be more adequate to what you want to do.

This is an article from 2020 and I’m fairly sure it didn’t happen.

For me it doesn’t matter for lemmy as a whole. But if there is any truth to it, I want nothing with the instances that are administrated by these guys.

I have to ask.

Is there any truth to what has been said about Lemmy’s dev ?

Honestly, reading the comments of some out there regarding this issue. I’m starting to think that they did the right choice.

It doesn’t take long to find fairly rude or insulting content regarding this.

Most people have no reason to care if a small instance decided to sail away.

It’s disappointing because I think this platform is already turning into reddit in term of tone/aggressiveness.

And it’s not even just comments, it’s upvoting memes that are genuinely rude or targeting a specific community. I don’t like the way this is going.

It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey.

Honestly, I respect their decision but at the same time I wonder why they didn’t create a standalone unfederated from the get go.

If you want to keep the community small and tightly nit it’s just not compatible with the federation system. Now people got invested in some beehaw communities only to end up disconnected from them.

Still, it’s not like there is a guide for this. We are all learning how to make the federation work. I hope we can keep it civil toward instances that choose to defederate.

We are all invested in the same thing: Making Lemmy successful.

Out of curiosity, you say an overwhelming conventional force. Does that mean the NATO plan explicitly says it should be conventional?

I always imagined that if a country nukes another they would immediately be nuked themselves. Because if a country is using their nuclear arsenal, it’s probably a bit late to moves armies around.