Paula with an FPJul 6, 2023

#Introduction #Introductions

Hi,
Another account of @PaulaToThePeople.

This is all about #Fairphone.

The story:
Do you remember back in the days when #Apple installed the suicide nets in "their" factories?
That's when I decided I'll no longer buy any Apple products.
When my iPhone died I looked around for a more sustainable and/or free (as in freedom) option.
So I stumbled upon Fairphone and bought the #FP1 or rather the #FP1u.
Soon afterwards I joined the first Fairphone meeting that took place in Vienna, Austria and we founded the @AustrianFairphoners.
So I joined the Fairphone community on Dec 9, '14 and it was like a family for me for a long time.
In 2018 I was actually introduced to the #Fediverse via the Fairphone forum.

In 2019 I joined #FridaysForFuture and ever since, I'm less active with Fairphone, but I would still never buy another phone and if I get the chance to help setup a Fediverse instance for Fairphone of course I will take it. 🙂

Who else owns a Fairphone here? I'd love to read your Fairphone origin stories. 😉

Show threadRyuno-KiJul 6, 2023

@paula
@PaulaToThePeople @AustrianFairphoners

Oh, great to see a #Fairphone instance joining the Fediverse 👋

My journey, huh?
My very first smartphone was a #FirefoxOS (Alcatel OneTouch Fire).
I still have it! It served me well.

Then, Mozilla killed it. I would still be able to use it, but without support, that could be risky in the long run.

So what else could I use?
I didn't want to have an iPhone, Android or Windows Phone, since I don't trust these companies.

1/n

Show threadRyuno-KiJul 6, 2023

@paula
@PaulaToThePeople @AustrianFairphoners

Around this time #Fairphone had ads on Twitter. It picked my interest. Especially since it appeared to be an ethical company that values repair & engages in improving the situation for workers in its supply chain

Yes, it's running on Android. But buying a #FP2 was the least of all evils. The one with white translucent back

I could have gone with flashing CyanogenMod (now known as #LineageOS) but there's always a risk of bricking. So I didn't

2/n

Show threadRyuno-Ki

@paula
@PaulaToThePeople @AustrianFairphoners

Somehow I stumbled upon the #FairphoneAngles program in my town and attended a meetup (and subsequently most of them). I wonder whether the Angle is present here on Fediverse. Either now or in the future.

Anyway, I've learned about the forum and noticed a discussion about building a community map to raise awareness.

It appeared to be an back and forth without any progress.
Frustrating!

3/n

Jul 6, 2023 at 5:15pmWeb
Show threadRyuno-KiJul 6, 2023

@paula
@PaulaToThePeople @AustrianFairphoners

In my experience as a Front-end developer I noticed that having something in front of you sparks conversation.

So I created https://github.com/WeAreFairphone/community-portal under the WeAreFairphone org (recently discovered it again as I #GiveUpGithub these days).

We made some progress but I think there's a better solution in use now. Anyways, we had progress!

4/n

GitHub - WeAreFairphone/community-portal: A Jekyll-based static site for informing about WeAreFairphone community activities

A Jekyll-based static site for informing about WeAreFairphone community activities - GitHub - WeAreFairphone/community-portal: A Jekyll-based static site for informing about WeAreFairphone communit...

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Show threadRyuno-KiJul 6, 2023

@paula
@PaulaToThePeople @AustrianFairphoners

Now, the team behind @Fairphone is putting so much effort in keeping the phones up-to-date as long as possible (thank you 💖) but at some point the Android is not compatible to the hardware put into the devices. So I had to upgrade.

Given my positive relationship with Fairphone - the community as well as the company - I stuck to the brand and bought a #FP3.

It's my daily driver ever since.

5/n

Show threadRyuno-KiJul 6, 2023

@paula
@PaulaToThePeople @AustrianFairphoners

Even better: when my wife went through different smartphones by different vendors and managed to get a spider app on each of them, the ability to repair was so convincing that she bought a #FP4 and is using that nowadays.

So we have three Fairphone apps in this household now.

Spreading to more people is not doable right now since Samsung is the only vendor offering assistive support for hard-of-hearing people (next to iPhone).

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