Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store
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#2There was a thread on twitter recently about how app stores would have rejected the first web browser, asking what future innovations might not happen due to them. Guess federated social media is a part of the answer.
Re: Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store
#3Seems likely anyone using Mastodon would know about alternative "stores" and manual installs.
Re: Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store
#4Seems likely anyone using Mastodon would know about alternative "stores" and manual installs.
It still slow down neophytes to try it.
Re: Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store
#5There was a thread on twitter recently about how app stores would have rejected the first web browser, asking what future innovations might not happen due to them. Guess federated social media is a part of the answer.
Yup. The internet is supposed to be "dumb" in the middle and "smart" at the edges. These app stores are centralized points of failure.
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#6Seems likely anyone using Mastodon would know about alternative "stores" and manual installs.
I know about them. But I would have to root my phone to install them. And that means trusting some binary blob from someone on the internet. So I would not do it.
Re: Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store
#7https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
" The Fediverse (a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe") is the ensemble of federated (i.e. interconnected) servers that are used for web publishing (i.e. social networking, microblogging, blogging, or websites) and file hosting, but which, while independently hosted, can communicate with each other. On different servers (instances), users can create so-called identities. These identities are able to communicate over the boundaries of the instances because the software running on the servers supports one or more communication protocols which follow an open standard. As an identity on the fediverse, users are able to post text and other media, or to follow posts by other identities. In some cases, users can even show or share data (video, audio, text, and other files) publicly or to a selected group of identities and allow other identities to edit other users' data (such as a calendar or an address book)." (wiki)
Re: Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store
#8https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse " The Fediverse (a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe") is the ensemble of federated (i.e. interconnected) servers that are used for web publishing (i.e. social networking, microblogging, blogging, or websites) and file hosting, but which, while independently hosted, can communicate with each other. On different servers (instances), users can create so-called identities.…
Well said. It's always funny when some acronym no one's heard of shows up unexplained on HN.
Re: Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store
#9Seems likely anyone using Mastodon would know about alternative "stores" and manual installs.
I know about them. But I would have to root my phone to install them. And that means trusting some binary blob from someone on the internet. So I would not do it.
You don't need to root your phone to sideload on Android... at least I've never encountered an Android device where that was true.
Re: Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store
#10Seems likely anyone using Mastodon would know about alternative "stores" and manual installs.
I know about them. But I would have to root my phone to install them. And that means trusting some binary blob from someone on the internet. So I would not do it.
Why would you have to root your phone? On my Android phone I just go into the settings app to enable third party appstores.