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I think your understanding is correct, but what /e/ is trying to provide is a more consistent, unified experience. Lacking Google services, you're sort of on yo
by ForHackernews 8y ago
I think your understanding is correct, but what /e/ is trying to provide is a more consistent, unified experience. Lacking Google services, you're sort of on your own trying to get what many people consider "basic" smartphone features: email, maps, cloud backups, etc.
I don't know if they'll succeed, but I fully endorse the idea of some umbrella project trying to put together a pleasantly integrated smartphone experience that doesn't rely on the tech giants.
Maybe /e/ will become the Gnome project of smartphones.
- kop316 8y agoSo then that brings a different set of questions. Like how are those things backed up? Is it client side encryption (I.e. they cannot access the data)? Can I point those services to a self hosted solution? If they had the ability to make a self hosted back end for online services back ups, I would actually be extremely interested.
- ForHackernews 8y agoI think the project is in pretty early days. You could get involved and help build (or at least request) the features you'd like to see.
- timbit42 8y agoIt has NextCloud support built in and I think they offer a NextCloud account to users (fee?) but hopefully a person could self host.