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The Signal Foundation does work on Signal Desktop - but they only release binaries for Mac, Windows, and Debian-based Linux distros. Those are the downloads available on their website, there is no link to the Flatpak on their website.

The community turns that official Debian release into an unofficial Flatpak release. This means that you need to trust the community packagers to be doing the right thing, along with trusting the Signal Foundation. It's an additional layer of trust that you wouldn't need for an official release.

An alternative option would be building the app yourself - there's documentation here and the repo is here, but then you're responsible for keeping up and rebuilding when they have updates. I definitely hope the Signal Foundation releases an official Flatpak, it's not a great position to be in if you're not on a Debian-based distro.

Just a note that the flatpak is not made by the Signal Foundation, it is maintained unofficially by the community. See the last sentence on the app description on Flathub:

This flatpak is maintained by the Flathub community, and is not necessarily endorsed or officially maintained by the upstream developers.

There's a discussion about the community flatpak's trustworthiness on their repo here and here, a feature request for the Signal Foundation to have an official distro-agnostic release here, but for now the only official Linux release of Signal is for Debian-based distributions.

Accrescent is in early alpha, but it looks like it's on its way to be a great, modern app store.

There's been an issue about this on lemmyverse's Github for about a month, link here. It seems like there's an issue where lemmy.world is responding incorrectly when it is scanned for communities, and since it hasn't been fixed lemmyverse hasn't been scanning lemmy.world.

Jerboa does maintain a list of instances for you to select how to open in the app - list here and see my other comment on how to pick the instances you want.

The list can be updated with this generation script, it seems to get all the Lemmy instances with at least 50 users from fediverse.observer.

Disclaimer: I've only tried this with my home instance and it's worked fine, I think I ran into issues with links from other instance, but try it out and see if it works now!

If you hold down on the app and click on "app info", then go to "open by default", you can select which websites should open in the jerboa app:

It's worked perfectly for me with links from my home instance.

(This "Open by Default" feature is very useful to know about for unofficial frontends like squawker, because if it isn't an official app this setting is how you choose it to be the default app.)

I'd love to try out Apple News, but as far as I can tell you can only access it on an Apple device, there's no web access :(

Kbin uses /m/ (for magazine), but Lemmy uses /c/ (I believe for community). So the url you want is https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected]

(And to get a link that will work on any instance, not just lemm.ee, using [email protected] as a link should work and is generally preferred)

I'm very excited about this - Apple has such a polished customer care experience where you can walk into any Apple Store that Google hasn't matched. Increasing the options for in-store repair from just Asurion/uBreakiFix to more stores is big for my peace of mind.

Starting with Android 12 (and maybe earlier, I think it may be a part of a Google Play update?), you can delete your advertising ID in settings - definitely worth doing!

There's a github issue about this if you want to add anything to it, this separate issue also has some details about the sanitation. The issue seems to have been introduced in v0.18.3.

Edit: fixed :)

Hi! Incredibly small note - it looks like the community name has a trailing space (it seems like it's "Android ", with a space after the d), so it looks a bit goofy on non-lemmy.world instances with a space before the @: