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Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection (www.theregister.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Obtainium is better, get the apps directly from the source

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I actually like that the F-Droid maintainers check over the apps and warn about anti-features/stop offering new versions if they enshittify.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Their apps also cause tons of problems compared to the ones directly from the source

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How so? OOTL here

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

They do not. F-Droid also compiles from the source, they are the same apps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They have problems with the build process and verification, also the software is sometimes out of date on fdroid. In addition I dont personally want someone else curating my software library.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

More like F-Droid cares about things like reproducible builds and other best practices, and sloppy upstream projects sometimes have a problem coping. But as I understand it that's typically the upstream developers' problem, not F-Droid's.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

This is 100% untrue and you are making shit up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Expand on this please. I am unfamiliar.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its an open source software manager, you put in a source (like github) and it manages it (even doing auto updates).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m sorry, you lost me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Basically it automatically installs and updates software directly from the developers with no middle man