Lemmy doesn’t restrict VPN use. Some instances may

Murena is the company developing/e/os

What’s the point with what I said? The official repo has apps that are not signed by the developer but by this third party (repo mainteners)

It works fine from the developer build. Better not use the app signed by F-Droid. Also there are two releases of Aves: Aves Gallery and Aves Gallery Libre

Best experience you’ll have is from Accrescent

On Accrescent* would be better

What country are you even talking about? How on Earth can you burst in and shout a mysterious country’s laws without context?

We’re not your flatmates

Why would you burn a small forest to do that? If you don’t want to pay a service and know how it has to be done (you would have to develop your agent), do it by hand

I think you can deploy Matrix with Yunohost, which is very convenient as a first self hosted server

In addition to my answer to your original request, I can inform about stuff related to WhatsApp.

You can use WhatsApp on a Matrix server with a bridge. You can either selfhost or find a server which has the WhatsApp bridge.

There is also Beeper - now acquired by Automattic (WordPress, …) - which is a company matrix server with many bridges (they employed the person developing most of them). You can use a FOSS matrix client like Element X or their own client which is not FOSS but requires far fewer permissions than the WhatsApp app

Molly would be the independent and FOSS Android client

But that’s not a replacement for WhatsApp + Signal was funded by Radio Free Asia (under CIA control), which is something to consider

People have mentioned NextDNS (just a DNS setting) and TrackerControl (connects as a VPN on android/grapheneos)

I can mention also DNSNet (which actually also uses a VPN) and PCAPdroid

There are other options, with more features. Lists exist online

BTW you don’t neee an external app to remove network permission on GrapheneOS

I fell for it, but haven’t actually used it yet. I’ll stick to Deepseek, at least I know where they stand + they are not the ones that can use my data against me and probably won’t hand them over to western governments (mine)

I haven’t heard about the shooting but good thing there was actually one fewer victim

I think Louis Rossman has a video explaining why F-Droid is not great

Probably also Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser, but I don’t know them much

Vanadium

I don’t think you can install it outside of GrapheneOS though

Sentences?

OP not your pet

You mean Matrix, surely

I’ve looked into the sources because that was weird to me as well.

It’s because the web “client” is using nginx as a local web server. You’re selfhosting the web client

The app still is 100% a frontend js client

OP did link to their public instance of the client, but gives more opportunities