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Circlus messenger? (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Right - ran a search and got no results, so am asking directly

This thing any good? Anyone run it?

https://circlus.org/

Use case: want to give my kid a SEVERELY locked down Moto E (2nd gen) as a Youtube music player device and a "message Daddy" app - strictly wifi / in house only.

The first thing is simple enough. The second thing is...interesting.

I had my local AI do some research and it spat out the above. I don't think it's quite right but It looks interesting. Any one use it / can comment? Failing that, can anyone recommend a simple WLAN messaging app that will run on Android 6 / lineageOS? I'm sure I can dig one up but if someone has one running, I'm all ears.

PS: I'm not looking at using a VPS for this...but the above did catch my attention as fairly normie friendly. Might be worth self hosting something like that...

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It says it's opensource. Where's the source code?

https://github.com/circlus-org

Nothing there.

I had my local AI do some research and it spat out the above.

Ah, there's your problem.

the above did catch my attention as fairly normie friendly.

Appearing to be normie friendly. Probably on purpose. Please don't be dissuaded by real OSS projects that try to give you real information and detailed instructions. It's not all that complicated and usually much safer.

If all you want is "message daddy" why bother with any of this at all? Just set it up so your kid can only SMS one number.

Or use Signal.

Or maybe you don't even want to put a SIM card into the phone?

Not sure I'd recommend that; they should be able to call 112 or whatever your country's equivalent is. (edit: ok most phones allow that even without a sim i think)

Or is this supposed to be some sort of toy with the extra benefit of messaging daddy?

The more I think about it the less I see the point.