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The "private company can do whatever it wants" crowd will not show up for this one because it doesn't suit their politics
I've said it before, and I'll say it now: private companies can ban what they want! It's good for corporations to have ethics, even if I don't agree with said ethics, whether it's banning Gab or this. It's their constitutional right, and it's a responsibility that comes with having the power they do.
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Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but isn't that F-Droid? But that's only for open-source apps.
Worth noting that fdroid is an app and a couple of (default) repos, but you can add additional repos to the same app (like Debian; it ships with all-FOSS repos, but you can add more and apt will happily pull nonfree software from them).
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The problem is the iPhone and Android platforms are the only two ways to reach many customers. Web isn't first class, and there's no open standard or easy way to distribute native apps. 1990-2010's Internet didn't have this problem. Nobody cares if Xbox bans your game. There are a dozen plus other platforms. But if Apple or Google say no, you're toast. We need a bill of rights to protect us against megaplatforms .
> The problem is the iPhone and Android platforms are the only two ways to reach many customers. Neither has a monopoly, or anything close to a monopoly. Duopolies are legal. > Web isn't first class, and there's no open standard or easy way to distribute native apps. This isn't a bad thing. People who want native apps from a source other than Apple or Google can pretty easily get them: Cydia's existed longer than the…
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The problem is the iPhone and Android platforms are the only two ways to reach many customers. Web isn't first class, and there's no open standard or easy way to distribute native apps. 1990-2010's Internet didn't have this problem. Nobody cares if Xbox bans your game. There are a dozen plus other platforms. But if Apple or Google say no, you're toast. We need a bill of rights to protect us against megaplatforms .
> The problem is the iPhone and Android platforms are the only two ways to reach many customers. Neither has a monopoly, or anything close to a monopoly. Duopolies are legal. > Web isn't first class, and there's no open standard or easy way to distribute native apps. This isn't a bad thing. People who want native apps from a source other than Apple or Google can pretty easily get them: Cydia's existed longer than the…
Maybe even the full "The world doesn't owe you a business model, and you can't take away people's rights because you want a better way to sell" even though that invites unproductive sidetracking about to what extent a free market is a right.
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Worth noting that fdroid is an app and a couple of (default) repos, but you can add additional repos to the same app (like Debian; it ships with all-FOSS repos, but you can add more and apt will happily pull nonfree software from them).
Do you know any non-FOSS repos that can be added to FDroid? On my devices that don't have Google Play Services, I end up going to the APK Pure and APK Mirror websites which are super sketchy and loaded with tracking and ads.
To me, finding and installing apps is one piece. The most important piece, however, is updating the apps. For me, at least. Aurora handles this, and uses the play store as source.
It's reasonably userfriendly and out of the way.
We could be living in a world where no open web ever existed, where everything would be filtered through app stores and closed environments like Facebook (AOL).
We need to preserve the open web, it is our most precious ressource.
Threesomes especially have become too linked to pornography.