Comment on In case you missed it: Fossify (A fork of Simple Mobile Tools)
AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A few weeks ago, I was reinstalling my phone and stumbled across Foaaify Gallery. I assumed they were a shady copycat because their app listing (on F-Droid) makes no mention of Simple Mobile Tools, yet it appears to be a fork. Consequently, I avoided it because it shady. Turns out, SMT was bought.
I would have trusted this a lot more easily if the f-droid listing made it clear what is going on here. Maybe the (contributor to SMT) Dev who made Fossify was trying to avoid legal entanglements or something, but it made Fossify seem sketchy if you dont know the backstory, which I had no way of knowing.
Anyway, here is the corrected link to Fossify’s github: github.com/FossifyOrg
mote@lemmy.world 8 months ago
AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well sure, I know that now but my point is that I had no way of knowing that when I only saw both listings on F-Droid, so their app listing not even mentioning their fork status felt shady.
WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Agreed - you need to tell users why you exist, don’t expect them to know everything.
LWD@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Considering SMT’s dev was willing to create a random junk phone with his IP, I’m not sure how much good will was deserved… But probably better then than me to decide.