The title doesn't make it clear. It's a fund-raiser; they need money.
Promising-sounding non-profit dedicated to advancing FOSS-based Federated Networks (Matrix, Pleroma, Mastodon, Diaspora, etc). They provide several free federated servers/services.
They're also looking for membership, costs €1/month and gets some extra perks. I'm joining.
>GMail doesn't actually filter spam. It just hides it
This is not accurate. There is a long on-going issue with GMail (and others) wholesale blocking delivery of email from domains/IPs/providers it deems to be spam or otherwise inappropriate. GMail users get no indication/notification, and generally have no idea that email sent to them was simply not delivered.
Curious to see how you handle weighting/filtering of the sources, the whole "fake news" issue.
Not your primary concern, I'm sure, but I don't (normally) use Google, nor allow Google-tools into my browser. I am a small-but-vocal minority. There are good alternatives to Google's recaptcha, Google-docs registration, etc. Just sayin'.
Great point, we'll have to work on that going forward. We've been using AP News as our main source for the moment as it is fairly neutral, but we're looking for ways to handle different sources going forward. We went with google but are open to other suggestions for future forms
I strongly suggest you make it user-configurable, history shows it's difficult for any individual to reliably predict what news is fake vs not. Rather, tools such as this might actually help one differentiate, provided the news sources aren't censored.
Here's a first-hand review. I posted this as a reply a minute ago, then decided to make it a primary comment.
Wire has been my go-to communications app for 2-3 years now. Running it on a Google-free phone, it has gradually become more buggy, and less reliable over time, and sadly, still the best secure/encrypted app I could find.
Testing Jami. I tried Ring 8-10 months ago. Text worked, audio/video did not.
In the past few days, trying Jami, audio-only works very well - clear, crisp, no lag - much better than Wire. Video was a bit buggy, but still decent.
Connectivity was an issue, calls froze, or got cut off a couple times. Tentatively, it looked like switching from a local WiFi to phone ISP was at least part of the problem.
Also, using the same account across multiple devices is a bit buggy. Contacts established on one device are not available on the other.
All things considered, the basic quality of the connection is very good, better than Wire, maybe better than Skype. Reliability of the connection, and the various 2ndary features that people take for granted, still need work.
Not GP, but I assume he doesn't mean a phone with /nothing/ Google on it, but more likely that the phone connects to no Google services and lacks Google Play Services. I do something like this by running AOSP on a Pixel device, which makes my choices of apps that work...less numerous. I'll have to give Jami a try, based on GP's good experience.
AOSP derived ROMs without gapps are pretty much "nothing Google". Unless you count AOSP itself as "Google", which it kind of is I guess, but it's not Google proprietary.
You can add sturgeon (source of caviar, among other things) to that list. Living fossils, been around 130+M years. Lake Sturgeon[1] reach sexual maturity at ~25 yrs, only reproduce once every 4-6 yrs, and can live 150+ yrs.
They're also a popular game fish, and traditional spearfishing target of Native Americans.
Promising-sounding non-profit dedicated to advancing FOSS-based Federated Networks (Matrix, Pleroma, Mastodon, Diaspora, etc). They provide several free federated servers/services.
They're also looking for membership, costs €1/month and gets some extra perks. I'm joining.