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Free Software[Android]

@foss_Android

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2,512subscribers

-5 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001250904304
TypeChannel
Username@foss_Android
CreatedBetween 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live13 August 2026
Measurements held4
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 13 August 2026
On Telegramt.me/foss_Android

Growth

2,5122,5172,514.56 August 2026 — 2,517 subscribers7 August 2026 — 2,517 subscribers10 August 2026 — 2,516 subscribers13 August 2026 — 2,512 subscribers6 August 202613 August 2026
4 measurements spanning 7 days, net -5. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 2,511–2,518 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
13 Aug 2026, 12:182,512-4
10 Aug 2026, 07:252,516-1
7 Aug 2026, 05:412,517no change
6 Aug 2026, 16:122,517first reading

Engagement

20 posts held, back to 21 September 2024the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 2 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
22.8%
avg views ÷ 2,512 subscribers
Avg views / post
573
1 post measured
Reaction rate
1.92%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
1
of 20 held

ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.

ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 29 July 2026
Posts held20 (21 September 202429 July 2026)
Views total573
Reactions total11
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken7 Aug 2026, 16:26 UTC

Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.

Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.

Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.

Reaction mix

285 reactions across 20 posts, in 9 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 46.0% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
👍13146.0%
12142.5%
🔥207.02%
🤯51.75%
🎉31.05%
👏20.702%
💯10.351%
😱10.351%
🤩10.351%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 20 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 285reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 21 September 2024 to 29 July 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Recent posts

29 Jul 2026, 17:33 UTC573 views11 reactionsread 7 August 2026
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Komi Store Open-Source App Store Discover and install apps directly from GitHub, Codeberg, Forgejo, Gitea, and other self-hosted forges. • Browse trending and popular releases • One-click installation from supported repositories • Track installed apps and receive update notifications • Supports GitHub, Codeberg, Forgejo, Gitea & self-hosted instances • Material You design with light, dark & AMOLED themes • Availabl

8🔥2👍1

7 Jun 2026, 07:05 UTC≈1,700 views12 reactionsread 7 August 2026
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Wallet A fully offline card manager that stores your credit, debit, loyalty, and ID cards with AES-256-GCM encryption — no internet permission, no cloud, no tracking. Features • 100% offline — zero internet permission, data never leaves your device • AES-256-GCM encryption with in-memory decryption (no plaintext on storage) • Biometric authentication support • Encrypted photo scans of card front and back • Quick bar

11👍1

13 May 2026, 08:40 UTC≈1,940 views10 reactionsread 7 August 2026
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Areada A minimal, offline-first Android reader for EPUB, TXT, and PDF files — no internet, no ads, no tracking. Features • EPUB, TXT, and PDF support with saved reading progress • Persistent bookmarks across all file types • Reader controls: theme, font family, font size, and pinch-to-zoom • EPUB chapter table of contents and PDF page navigation • Basic local note-taking with plain .txt files • Folder picker via Sto

👍64

9 Mar 2026, 19:16 UTC≈3,300 views27 reactionsread 7 August 2026
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Android has always benefited from openness — allowing users, developers, and communities to build and share freely. The 'Keep Android Open' initiative highlights why openness matters for innovation, privacy, and user choice. If you care about the future of an open Android ecosystem, it’s worth reading and supporting: 🔗 https://keepandroidopen.org @foss_Android

23🔥3🤯1

6 Feb 2026, 03:25 UTC≈2,580 views12 reactionsread 7 August 2026
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OneKey Crypto DeFi Wallet OneKey is an open-source, self-custody crypto wallet designed to help users hold their own keys and manage digital assets securely. • Self-custody wallet (HYOK — hold your own key) • Supports multiple chains: Bitcoin, Lightning, Ethereum, Solana, Doge, Tron & many EVM networks • Multiple wallets & accounts to isolate risks • Built-in swap with optimized pricing • Watch-only addresses for t

👍64🤯2

15 Jan 2026, 18:15 UTC≈2,500 views14 reactionsread 7 August 2026
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DuckRun A simple FOSS game 🦆 DuckRun is a fun, open-source game inspired by the Chrome dino game. Help a hopping duck collect coins, then use them to buy hats or shoes in the shop. • Simple gameplay • Lightweight and offline-friendly • No ads, no tracking • Free and open source Download: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/de.informationsanarchistik.teapot.megamichi.duckrun?repo=main Source code: https://tea

8👍4🔥1🤩1

21 Nov 2025, 19:15 UTC≈2,980 views8 reactionsread 7 August 2026
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MBCompass Modern FOSS Compass & Navigation A lightweight, open-source compass and navigation app with no ads, no tracking, and no unnecessary bloat. • Shows cardinal directions & magnetic azimuth • Magnetic strength in µT • Live GPS location on OpenStreetMap • Sensor fusion for better accuracy • Light/Dark theme • Keeps screen on during navigation • Works on Android 5.0+ • Built with Jetpack Compose and Material De

8

15 Oct 2025, 19:03 UTC≈3,750 views19 reactionsread 7 August 2026
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Our Mastodon account just passed 5K followers! 🎉 Big thanks to everyone who’s been part of it and keeps the FOSS spirit going strong 💚 Join us there if you haven’t yet 👇 https://mstdn.social/@foss_android We’ll keep curating hand-picked FOSS apps that respect your privacy and freedom 💚 @foss_Android

12👍7

14 Oct 2025, 11:12 UTC≈2,710 views10 reactionsread 7 August 2026
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Element X A fast, secure, and privacy-focused messenger built on the open Matrix network. Element X lets you stay connected with friends, family, and communities — all while keeping control of your data. Features: • Real-time messaging & video calls • Public and private group chats • Reactions, polls, pinned messages & more • Video calling while browsing messages • Works with other Matrix apps (FluffyChat, Cinny, e

👍63🤯1

15 Aug 2025, 06:59 UTC≈3,380 views11 reactionsread 7 August 2026
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FOSS Lovers 💬🐧 A friendly space to talk about everything Free, Libre, and Open Source Software — from apps to operating systems, and everything in between. 💬 Join the discussion: https://t.me/foss_Discussion ✳️ Matrix[Element]: https://matrix.to/#/#foss_discussion:matrix.org 🐘 Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@foss_android 🎧 Discord: https://discord.gg/s6BbPnvddh 📢 Our channels: @FOSS_Android | @FOSS_Desktop | @FOS

👍10😱1

25 Jul 2025, 17:54 UTC≈3,420 views15 reactionsread 7 August 2026
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Proton Wallet A self-custodial Bitcoin wallet for Android and web, built with end-to-end encryption. Features: ● Self-custody with BIP39 seed phrase (compatible with other wallets) ● End-to-end encryption for wallet data and keys ● No trackers or ads ● Multi-device support (mobile + web) ● BTC transactions only (no altcoins) ● Send Bitcoin to other users via verified email ● Built-in address rotation for privacy ●

12🔥3

Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @foss_Android. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.

Citation-graph rank

Citation-graph rank — 38,323 of 1,340,412entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.

Forward network

Republished by

Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.

Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.

Mentions

Named by 5 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.

Names

Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.

A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.

Cite this entry

A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 13 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Free Software[Android]” (@foss_Android), 2,512 subscribers as measured 13 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/foss_Android.

Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.