"Selling a smartphone is a cutthroat business, and we've seen dozens of companies try and fail over the years. Purism didn't just survive long enough to ship a product—it survived in what is probably the hardest way possible, by building a non-Android phone with demands that all the hardware components use open code. Making it this far is an amazing accomplishment."

@adam @purism
KaiOS likely relies on some non-free parts (drivers?). Else, it could also apply to be listed as 100% free software by the FSF.
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html

@adam @purism and then there's also Jolla with SailfishOS 😎

@alex @purism One of their base services (separate from the hardware), is Librem Chat via Puri.sm. That is a fork of the Matrix capable Riot client. That's in their free package along with Librem Social; Mastodon. It's available to people no matter what hardware you have. Their eMail and VPN are a subscription-based service for what seems like fairly obvious reasons.

@wnymathguy @alex the Librem One team are working on a Librem Chat client for the Librem 5. There is also Fractal from GNOME which scales well on a mobile UI.

@purism @wnymathguy Does the Librem Chat client also work with accounts on other matrix servers like matrix.org?

@alex @purism Hard to say. I haven't toyed much with Matrix & Riot yet. My first experience was the Librem fork of Riot for Android. Their's an active forum that you can search for those conversations:
forums.puri.sm/

I recall people on Librem Chat in one of the rooms discussing how to make some linking work between the regular Matrix servers and the Purism type ones. I didn't pay much attention to that yet though, so all I can say was I recall people saying they couldn't and others saying they did.