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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

There are downsides with downloading their app just to input bad data, but it's a fun thought.


edit: While we're at it we might as well offer an alternative app to people.

I posted in !opensource@programming.dev to collect recommendations for better apps

The post: https://lemmy.ca/post/32877620

Leading Recommendation from the comments

The leading recommendation seems to be Drip (bloodyhealth.gitlab.io)

Summarizing what people shared:

  • accessible: it is on F-droid, Google Play, & iOS App Store
  • does not allow any third-party tracking
  • the project got support from "PrototypeFund & Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Superrr Lab and Mozilla"
  • Listed features:
    • "Your data, your choice: Everything you enter stays on your device"
    • "Not another cute, pink app: drip is designed with gender inclusivity in mind."
    • "Your body is not a black box: drip is transparent in its calculations and encourages you to think for yourself."
    • "Track what you like: Just your period, or detect your fertility using the symptothermal method."

Their Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@dripapp

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[-] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 1 week ago

people will do anything but search for an alternative

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 46 points 1 week ago

...how do you mean?

Obviously we're not going to get everyone to download a FOSS period tracker, as nice as that would be -- they're already invested in the ones they're using, and no doubt it will have features and usability improvements the FOSS one doesn't, usually thanks to some network service that is fundamentally incompatible with the FOSS philosophy. That's almost always how these things go.

We should definitely be telling more people about F-Droid, but let's not get our hopes up. Socialism is about protecting everyone, even people who don't share your views, even if those views are objectively correct.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We should definitely be telling more people about F-Droid, but let’s not get our hopes up

Accessibility (not being on FDroid only) was one of the things I was looking for when looking for recommendations. Thankfully the leading recommendation is on Google Play & iOS App Store :) I have edited the post above with more details

Drip (bloodyhealth.gitlab.io)

"Socialism is about leading horses to water whether they fucking drink or not."

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago

I mean... yes. More horses will drink if they know there is water, and even if they don't, they're still safer than they otherwise would have been.

[-] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 1 week ago

I mean, they dont like the APP because it collects data, but refuse to do one web search for an app that doesn't, then complain on fucking twitter about privacy concerns??? seriously??

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