Often I have dloaded a recently updated random app from Fdroid & it's great. This is a RSS + Xitter + Misskey/Mastodon + Bluesky-compatible in 1 timeline material design reader 🤩

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So often I have downloaded a recently updated random app from Fdroid and it's good. It happens almost every time. This is a combined Xitter/Misskey/Mastodon/Bluesky material design client - Lemmy

Seems a little buggy but idgaf this is a thousand times better than the last attempt at a foss Xitter app

While this app seems sensible, I checked out the github developer account DimensionDev and it looks like their primary product is something called Mask which is something about “Web 3” crypto/NFT integration … looks like they’re a libertarian crypto grifter cult to me. They also have a gaudy, nonfunctional company page whose copyright notice reveals that is owned by a Chinese parent company with it’s own stale, uninformative web page.

It’s open source, and yeah, maybe they thought they’d make something actually useful … but the source is full of red flags.

Dimension

Dimension official development organization. Dimension has 157 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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So you don’t like AI and you may find the dev not to your taste + too Chinese, however unlike the dozen other guys/groups exactly like main dev I have seen make a fediverse app with AI slop characteristics or twitter app, this one is actually functional, snappy interface, and successfully connects with twitter & dms reliably. Just turn off the stupid AI summaries everyone adds to everything and it’s a great little app with a functioning share button.

Hmm, I didn’t say anything about AI (although you’re right that, like most people in the fedi, I don’t like it) and I’m not anti-Chinese. It’s the crypto connection which raises trust issues. They list Binance as a partner and supporter, whose founder was convicted of fraud and pardoned by Trump because his sons are in on the crypto grift.

I don’t think I’ll be trying this app out, even though it sounds interesting, unless some trustworthy party audits the code. But hey, you do you.