New blog post: Why "digital sovereignty" requires a free software alternative to Android and iOS, and how we're building towards that 🏗️

https://modal.cx/blog/sovereign-mobile-stack

Towards a Sovereign Mobile Stack — Modal Collective

Let’s build a real alternative to iOS and Android.

Modal Collective

@modal ok, but what are you doing about the political and social problems you outline in your post?

there are already a bunch of non-ios/-android mobile operating systems, including at least one built on gnome/gtk, but the actual problem is that many people can't practically use them because they need the proprietary apps for government id, banking, mobile payments, etc. - yet another mobile platform that doesn't solve these problems won't change anything

@Tak @modal The social problems make me allergic to the "sovereign" wording. Politicians love centralized, proprietary, identity-requiring platforms, as they make surveillance and control easy and omnipresent.
@makepost @modal I keep hoping that countries will eventually realize they can't each afford to build their own panopticon and instead collaborate on something that doesn't suck 🤷