Voyager for lemmy is now on F-droid! You don’t need to setup a third party repo as its in the main repo

Edit: I’ll just stick to Jeroba for now as the Voyager UI is painful for me personally

  • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Is it safer than Sync for Lemmy? (tracking etc.)

    Edit - seems to be based on what I’ve read.

    404 on F-droid but works on Google Play Store.

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        8 months ago

        That’s a little too wishful of a statement, freedom is guaranteed of course, but there is no rule that free software will be more private just by virtue of having its code be open. For instance many free apps will still include analytics (proprietary or not), it’s not the case with this one luckily

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          8 months ago

          With free (freedom) apps you can always manually remove what you don’t like. If the developer or company dies or loses interest you can take over development (or your friend can)

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            8 months ago

            Yes, you can do that, I just meant to say that privacy is not a given, no one stops from working towards it yourself

  • Mereo@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Voyager is best in iOS at it was heavily inspired by the ex-App Apollo.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah it kind of shows. I’ll just stick with Jerboa for now but that’s not reflective of the apps quality

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    8 months ago

    If I’m currently running the Play Store version, is there a way to switch over without uninstalling and losing allmy settings?

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      Unless the app allows you to export/import your settings, unfortunately the answer is no.

      This is because F-Droid builds its own installers and signs them with their own key. Android (sensibly) does not allow upgrading a package if the signing key is not the same.

      • Actually, Voyager has reproducible builds enabled. This means F-droid distributes the app with the same key that is used for everywhere else Voyager is distributed (Github releases, Play store).

        So if you want to migrate from Play Store to F-droid, turn off automatic updates for Voyager in Play Store and update the app with F-droid :)

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      8 months ago

      Theoreticly you data is stored one your lemmy account. Maybe you could try downloading the F-droid version and signing in

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    8 months ago

    Man I was looking for it there earlier today but ended up getting it from the play store.

    I guess it didn’t help that I was searching for Eternity, not Voyager. What’s the scoop with the name?

    Edit: I’m confused. I guess they’re different.