• grue@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    What the fuck? Did F-Droid change ownership (sell out to a hedge fund or something)? Or did I somehow time-travel to April 1, or what?

  • watson@sopuli.xyz
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    2 years ago

    That’ll be a big nope, thanks.

    Edit: 20 years from now, FDroid will be worse than the Play store and we’ll have a “new” store that functions like FDroid does currently.

    • huginn@feddit.it
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      2 years ago

      If you want devs to make apps without any monetization you’re limiting the number of devs that will develop for your platform.

      Free only means you only allow passion projects that people work on as a side project or only the developers rich enough to have retired already.

      Nobody who is struggling to get by can spend all their time developing a free app that has 0 monetization.

      So they monetize on Google Play.

      If you care about breaking Google’s control of Android you should cheer on another paid marketplace, especially one out of the clutches of Amazon.

      • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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        2 years ago

        Cryptomator is available on F-Droid but you still have to purchase a license to use it, although the dev has to maintain all the licensing and payment infrastructure which can be a roadblock for some.