Signal is certainly not. It’s open source, and verifiably end-to-end encrypted. The only information that they have about you is your phone number, when your account was created, and when you last connected to the service.
Telegram is not so privacy friendly, with a major problem being that it’s not end-to-end encrypted by default.
For YouTube frontends: On the Linux desktop, there is FreeTube, on IOS there is yattee (IIRC), then there are web based front ends from invideous.
Louis Rossman mentioned the other day that they are in the process of creating an app that will allow you to follow your chosen creators across multiple services, so that you can continue even if their primary platform removes them.
If you’re looking for YouTube alternatives, check out Peertube, Odyssey, and Nebula (I haven’t looked at Peertube or Odyssey in a while, so I can’t comment on how they are doing).
I can almost guarantee that your payment of 15x the normal amount would still be too little versus how many versions will be compiled and distributed for free with premium features enabled.
That depends on how many people feel the same as me, and I know how we could find out.
While it seems to have fallen out of favor, crowdfunding is excellent at helping to resolving that kind of uncertainty.
@ljdawson, please consider how much it would be worth to you, and start a campaign. Go open-source If the target is reached.
To be clear, I don’t expect it. I’ll be happy either way to see tools developed that encourage the use of Lemmy over reddit.
Being open-source would be an additional value proposition that I, and maybe many others, would happily pay for. I use Jerboa, and will probably continue to use it.
Maybe this is not apples-to-apples, but my favorite audio-book player has separate free and paid versions only differentiated by the presence of dark mode. It’s such a trivial thing to paywall that it comes across to me as a respectful petition for generosity. I bought the paid version and then gave multiple tips through the in-app purchase.
Hopsan shares similarities with Simulink, and can also work together with it.