gnu and linux have done the unthinkable, being very longevity and living very long woa!! they have been important!! and xmpp and irc are longevity too! but will f-droid have longevity too?? will it live for 40+ years?? android too?? both of them are open source so anyone can fork them and keep them alive yea!! n.n
As I cannot predict the future I truly don’t know but while it lasts is good to use it. 👍👍
Teknikal@lemm.ee 6 months ago
No, F-droid.org is already on its last legs, although I do hope it survives but from what I know one single guy now controls the entire report and had made threats to shit it down more than once.
I hop som body forks the entire thing and hopefully does it with an attempt of it surviving as Google has gotten wild in their restrictions and something like F-Droid is sorely needed.
LWD@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Teknikal@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Sorry I only know this from things I’ve read myself so it’s at best third hand info, but yeah from what I understand F-Droid is pretty much under constant threat of just vanishing.
I use quite a lot of F-Droid apps myself so obviously I don’t want it to and wish it had an alternative.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The latest is that Google is making it easier for external stores. This was in development before their recent court loss against Epic. F-Droid is still going strong imo, although it’s certainly lacking as a place to browse for apps.
If F-Droid did die something would definitely pop up in its place. It already has a protocol that allows you to monitor other app sources than the official F-Droid store, such as directly from developers. Hell, there are already alternate versions of the F-Droid app, eg AuroraDroid.
All F-Droid does is vaguely check the app and then compile it with their key. They’re simply a single point of trust for this action, a buffer between the user and the many developers writing apps. This is a service anyone could provide, however right now no one else needs to because everyone trusts F-Droid well enough for most things, and their favourite app developers enough to update directly.
01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
so thats a no…