The code is very auditable. I have not audited it myself though so I have no idea if it's actually good, but you can absolutely audit it.
EDIT: Just read through the Javascript portion, which seems incredibly anemic. Each file is like 20 to 40 lines of code max. I did notice there is a C++ folder though, I'm guessing that's where the meat and potatoes are.
I said I reduced mine, not eliminated.
You know you can just... stop visiting all social media sites right? Its not easy but its very doable. Ive mostly done it (significantly reduced to almost nothing).
This looks like a heavy rebrand of the Pine64's Pinecil soldering iron.
Meanwhile a bald turtle and his AI anime daughter on twitch can do exactly this, and he's building her at home on nvidia GPUs.
(Vedal987 and Neuro-sama, if you're curious)
Pretty sure KDE's Discover store hooks into Debian's repos just fine too
Please no. if you want this, please use Gnome.
It'd be great if they implemented the same identity encryption/obfuscation that Signal uses but for the IPs.
The lady doth protest too much it seems
The same is true of iPhones
I'd say going directly to a developer's github page for packages isnt too bad, especially now with all of the security features github has in the background, but yea technically true.
kind of
If you download the client, it's just an electron app, so all of the bits written in js/css/etc are sitting right there in the client itself. People have used this to repackage it with customizations, such as webcord (nicer user experience on Linux) and others.
As for the compiled bits... well, every binary executable is open source if you're brave enough