I’m probably overthinking it, but I’m interested to hear how people approach this.

So I’m leaning more into FOSS and degoogling, so I ordered a Pixel for GOS.

However, I recently learned that GOS recommends Play Store before any FOSS app stores.

That kind of broke my brain and had me evaluating my goals and philosophy.

Do you folks just set up a different GOS profile for Google stuff and keep using apps from Play Store without a second thought?

Or do you lean into FOSS apps as much as possible?

Or do you try to self-host as much as you can?

I’m kind of just looking for a North Star to follow here.

I’ve been self-hosting with Immich and Nextcloud for a couple of months and thought I had a new philosophy to live by, hence the Pixel purchase and GOS plans.

However, learning that the values of GOS don’t align perfectly with FOSS has disrupted my posture a bit.

It’s not very satisfying straddling privacy-centric apps/services alongside popular services that want all your data, especially taking into consideration the efforts required to go down the path of more privacy.

  • emerald@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    I’ve been using grapheneos for two or so years, I think using some non-foss apps is probably non-negotiable if you want a functioning phone. I personally only use one profile (+ the private space), but separating stuff out isn’t a terrible idea. Knowing that play services are sandboxxed away and that I have much finer control over per-app permissions makes me less concerned about letting corpo stuff cohabitate.

    However, I recently learned that GOS recommends Play Store before any FOSS app stores.

    As for this, basically the gos devs are just kinda indiosyncratic and have a lot of opinions, I wouldn’t worry too much about it if you know what you’re doing. I use fdroid for most stuff and I’ve never had any issues.