Certainly with you on all of this, and F-Droid certainly seems like the only way to guarantee that the software is free software. It might be worth playing around with in the future for things that might not need the quickest updates (like a notes app or a music player, and even F-Droid supports custom repos when devs offer it, even IronFox does.

Yea I get that 😅. Of course it’s just FOSS drama, I really should have known…

I thinl that while f-droid still has flaws (longer waits for updates is the big one, whether it be for security or just getting new things sooner), I really do like that it’s only FOSS software. While Obtanium takes a more “pick and choose” approach and doesn’t have any apps it offers by default, Accrescent, even if it’s mostly FOSS, still does. Although I did discover they plan to impliment tags and filters (was looking into things more after I stopped postting), I still feel like their statement of “proprietary software isn’t less private or secure than foss” just ignores the whole transparency aspect (again something I found last night after posting).

Yea FluffyChat is amazing! Perhaps I should have brought it up 😅. ntfy and UnifiedPush allow for notifications with it as well, which is nice.

Well for Accrescent, it’s still a newer project, but I do think they work with all of the developers of the apps they keep on there (at least last I heard slash for now). It also does seem to distinguish between libre and non-libre versions of software (with Aves, for example), and I don’t know if any of the others are, I haven’t looked into them or used them. Obtanium does a similar thing, where it takes the apks straight from the devs github/other sources (even fdroid if needed). I was using f-droid for a while, but (and I’m not technical, I just use the software) I believe there are issues with the SDK(?) being built for older versions of android, and I had also heard of there being issues involving replacing the devs signing keys. Additionally, the UI on Accrescent and Obtainium are also frankly much easier for me to navigate and look at, and unless you’re only using the main fdroid repo and no custom repos, it proves to be a much easier process as well.

All in all, I’ve heard f-droid has issues, and it didn’t look great anyway, and I’ve found better and smoother-working solutions. This post was meant to be more about the apps than how they were distributed (just thought it was neat, tbh), and it’s something I’ve been tweaking a bit lately and wanted to share. I’m sure there’s arguments to be made for f-droid, but many people I’ve talked to, and many sources I’ve seen (that I do not want to have to find, I’m using this as my personal experience, please take it as an anecdote and not as a concrete source/evidence) recommend Obtanium at least, and I’m willing to put my trust in GrapheneOS with Accrescent (although again, I had heard of it and used it before), considering how limited the software options in their app “store” are. If you have anything to say about f-droid, I will hear it out and would like to learn, but I really don’t want to get into a debate on this. I don’t mean to be hostile or overly defensive, but this always happens with these kinds of discussions, and it’s frankly shit for my mental health, so if I just disengage out of nowhere it’s nothing personal, I promise

Uh, my fellow hexbears, um, Fedora good!

The idea of being “apolitical”, not being “radical”, or working for “democracy” or the “rules-based order” or any other replacement term is so common, it’s great to see stuff like this being said.