Literally just stumbled upon it while trying to see if the PeerTube app had any recent updates. View-Verse has apps on both iOS and Android. The iOS app says no data collected.
Don’t know much about it beyond that so far, but the more options we have to get away from the big corporations the better, so I figured I’d share.
I just assume anything with “Freedom”, “Liberty”, “Patriot”, etc. in the name are grifters trying to scam and/or datamine MAGA. “Libre” I think is still safe because it sounds too European.
… brief search interlude …
aaaaand LibertyMediaLLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, a sprawling corporate holding company that is 49% owned by one John C. Malone, Atlanta Braves owner, Trump Inaugural Committee (round 1) donor and onetime largest individual landowner in the US.
…yup, that tracks.
UPDATE: I based the above off the parent comment, but view-verse lists its parent company as “Liberty Social Media LLC”, not “LibertyMediaLLC”. The former is much harder to pin down, the contact information on the google app is “Liberty Smith” and the dev site is a generic vibe-coding-looking website hosted on base44, so it may not be under LMC, just riding its coattails. Still, would not trust.
My bad, didn’t notice that screw up.
To add to the cherry of “totally trustyworthy, you guys”, liberty social media has this corporate email on their about page: libertysocialmediallc@gmail.com.
Im kinda glad foss started using libre as it feels like something the right would not be big on using. sounds to foreign.