I’ve been working on reverse-engineering Grindr and creating an open source client implementation for it since March.

When GrindrPlus closed, my project turned out to be its de-facto successor and immediatelly several thousands of people started following it. Now it has 70k+ downloads on Forgejo and the authorship is dedicated to public domain :)

  • MIT licensed, no ads, no analytics, no trackers, no diagnostics, no statistics, no telemetry, only opt-in updates checking
  • Signed releases, reproducible builds on all four platforms, full transparency
  • And it’s now in Google Play (for the time being) and being reviewed for F-Droid!

Already applied for Apple developer enrollment and going to publish this to EU alt stores as well as in the TestFlight. Then a classic unsigned ipa and also going to attempt Apple AppStore just for completeness.

You need an existing Grindr account. Downloads: https://opengrind.org/download

Questions and criticism welcome.

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    18 hours ago

    Oh shit! Am I a senator for thinking about it? Or a candidate?

    What am I going to say to my constituents?

    • Leviathan@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      9 hours ago

      What am I going to say to my constituents?

      You don’t have to be gay to use a gay app.

      That probably works.

      • altphoto@lemmy.today
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        8 hours ago

        This makes sense. I’ll have to come clean… What??? What happened?? I’m not a politician anymore!