gnu and linux have done the unthinkable, being very longevity and living very long woa!! they have been important!! and xmpp and irc are longevity too! but will f-droid have longevity too?? will it live for 40+ years?? android too?? both of them are open source so anyone can fork them and keep them alive yea!! n.n

  • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I don’t disbelieve you, but can you provide some links for that first paragraph worth of info? At least on its face, F-Droid looks like it’s doing fine.

    I’ve seen people recommend Obtainium as a more decentralized way of getting apps, and even F-Droid itself could have its servers shut down tomorrow and at least third party repositories would work, thankfully.

    I’d be shocked if Google ever managed to make Android worse than Apple devices, but sincerely fuck them for their continued efforts. At this point, it might be for legal reasons more than anything else.

    • Teknikal@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Sorry I only know this from things I’ve read myself so it’s at best third hand info, but yeah from what I understand F-Droid is pretty much under constant threat of just vanishing.

      I use quite a lot of F-Droid apps myself so obviously I don’t want it to and wish it had an alternative.