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You could run a battery optimized, opportunistically available mastodon instance from your phone, but Apple and Google won't let you. The amount of wasted comp

You could run a battery optimized, opportunistically available mastodon instance from your phone, but Apple and Google won't let you. The amount of wasted compute in everyone's hands is staggering.

linuxandrew 3y ago
Something like https://www.manyver.se/ https://www.manyver.se/ ? It is available on Google Play, Apple App Store and F-Droid. It seems they have had some issues with Google Play and the App Store with their weird catch-all policies, requiring integration with Google/Apple login etc. but they have managed to work around it for the time being.
threeseed 3y ago
Apple made a guide for how to use Mastodon on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1668483560 https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1668483560 So conceptually they are fine with it. And there is nothing you stopping your running servers on your devices.
- saagarjha 3y ago
  Servers that can’t run continuously aren’t very useful, though?
  - glenstein 3y ago
    Whether you think they're useful is one thing, but the point was that they're not in any formal sense forbidden by Google or Apple.
sleepybrett 3y ago
How is the relevant to the conversation? Sure, we have very powerful processors in many devices in our home that are idle much of the time. What, exactly, is your point.