@noiob oh! i had something like that on tusky a while back
i think i had to add the permission manually using adb because it just didn't want to ask for it
it's kind of annoying but adb shell pm grant com.keylesspalace.tusky.test android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
should get things working for you..!
@noiob hahah fair enough! i figured i'd just give you a workaround in case you wanted to play around with it in the meantime
@thingywott oh the one I actually use works, I'd rather open a bug report