I've started my self-hosting journey having Matrix in mind - especially the Matrix bridges to cut off the need to use social media clients like Discord.
Today, I'm slowly convicting my friends to join my instance. So far, that's just one of the closest ones (still win for me).
I hope one day decentralization in social media would take off!
If Microsoft invented WWW
stay strong bro
Music scrobbling solves that issue for me. Navidrome integrates well with for example last.fm. In addition to having my music listening history there one can find recommendations based on their music taste
AnntenaPod is the way
torrenting over tor would be exhaustive for the onions.
on f-droid there is a hardened firefox fork: mull
Aurora Store works like a charm without ads or tracking.
It does replace system webview.
Both Vanadium and Mulch are powerful. Mulch is Divest os default vebview and is using Vanadium patches. While the Vanadium is Graphene one.
https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mulch
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium
I stick with Mulch, because I added divest repo to Droidify, so I can upgrade webview as soon new update comes out. No need to wait for module update.
Haven't found a good way to easily update Vanadium. On XDA module's thread you can read about it.
https://xdaforums.com/t/magisk-module-webview-open-webview-2-3-1.4496119/
i love how microsoft logo was placed where it belongs in 2000