Google is an advertising company first, everything else second. Of course they shouldn’t be trusted, it’s safe to assume they’ll log and analyze the smallest piece of data

Do you think this would pass the grandma test? If so I’m 100% going to host this (mainly for my mother, hence the question)

Hard agree on this. Sell software and services to companies, only sell services to end users. I believe both selling your service as a dev and selling a service behind a free app are compatible with copyleft.

“This is completle free to use, download, modify, redistribute, etc by anyone except Dave. Fuck Dave.”

I don’t know how legal that’d be, but i wouldn’t even complain.

Blame apple for that. IPhone has this proprietary messaging app pre-installed which is probably super convinient for the ecosystem but uses some obsolete SMS protocol to communicate with android phones. I think recently this has gotten better, but only because beeper and the EU pressing on them