thats google safety net which only allows apps that use that check to be installed on google verified OS’s which graphene cant become

you can do a puppet bridge for your discord account so it bridges all the guilds your in to matrix without needing discord guild admins to add the bridge to it

did you host your own matrix homeserver or use matrix.org? that can change how fast it feels massively and yeah built in moderation tools are pretty much nonexistant https://github.com/the-draupnir-project/Draupnir is the only moderation bot that you can run to ban users from all rooms at once if they break your rules and lets you subscribe to banlists so if a user spams in other rooms that have write access and gets added they’ll be banned from your rooms as well

cinny.in is much closer to discord then element

From what I saw it was quite left leaning when I used it

There’s a beta you can try using a test branch app on their staging servers, you’ll need to make a new account with your number again and there has been issues where its leaked your number

Ntfy for apps that support it

Graphene community isn’t toxic at all, there’s some people who you really shouldn’t listen to seriously for advice but other then that it’s like all community’s with some good eggs and bad eggs

Not yet but it’s being worked on and it’s close now

Use a different homeserver for matrix and it’s way faster then the default matrix.org one for the element clients servers joinmatrix.org is a good list

Everyone doesn’t use the main HS sure it is alot of people but alot also don’t use it

Some bridges support encryption and even if they don’t there’s a tool to make it so they do pantalaimon

Framework probably

Welcome to dig deeper

They only recently made it quantum resistant, so I don’t think that whatsapp is using that version

Never torrent over Tor, torrent over I2P it actually supports it and has its own torrent client i2psnark

Pixel 6 series and 7 have 5 years and now 7 with the 8 series

Compared to almost all other android phone marker it’s decent and https://endoflife.date/pixel starting with the pixel 6 gen they got 5 years now 7 with the pixel 8

The proxy is needed until sliding sync is finalised and merged into the spec and implemented into clients

try conduit if you want a HS thats alot more optimized and runs well without a ton of resources