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Yes, #F-Droid is a better option than #Google_Play, but F-Droid is also known to expel Fediverse client apps when confronted with an astroturf campaign against them.
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@Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Didn't Play do the same now?
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@clacke Yes. The reason I posted is that people think that #F-Droid will step in and rescue apps that #Google #Play_Store bans, but history shows that is not the case.
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@Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] There are examples that it does, it accepts apps that Google rejects out of pure business, licensing or technical reason, like NewPipe or NixOnDroid, it's just that on the social side it's exposed to the same forces that Play is.
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@clacke I have not seen any more posts by app developers, but I did see someone else claim this morning (US time) that nearly all known #Fediverse client apps are now threatened with expulsion from Google Play over the ability to access unacceptable "user generated content (UGC)".
Someone else implied that Google does not understand federated networks. And, as Google is a huge company, it is very likely that most of the company does not. But some portion of Google likely remembers exploring Diaspora in order to clone it (sans federation) as GPlus.
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I'm the one who owns no smartphone, but is the no other way to install apps, e.g. by accessing the phone's file system?
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@vegos There is, sort of. If app developers expose a ".apk" file, people can download that and install it--if they have already enabled installation outside of the Play Store, which is a tiny setting that is sometimes pretty hard to find (same setting is needed to enable F-Droid).
Normies don't know about it, and if they did, they would have to search a while to find it. And every time they try, they'll get a pop-up asking them to enable "Play Protect" which would prevent them from installing the file directly.
And they also won't get updates.
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Thanks. Good to know.
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I would certainly welcome the widespread availability and uptake of a few more mobile operating systems.
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It's always the question of supported models. My girlfriend has an Iphone 4, I'm already looking for not that expensive Phones which could run Lineage. Alas Fairphone 4 doesn't yet. Of course, it should be a new model, for maximum usage span.
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