atomicpoet, to fediversenews
@atomicpoet@mastodon.social avatar

Here's the problem.

Recent growth on mastodon.social is greater than the growth rate of November 2022.

But growth on other servers, like mstdn.social, has flatlined.

This has been confirmed to me by numerous Mastodon server admins.

Very concerning!

@fediversenews

Growth of mstdn.social

dsfgs,

@selea @zimzat @ianp5a

2/2 We as humans love and apps with fun icons. The more fashionable the better. Icons really, really, really, really matter. We know because for a year we ignored Fediverse, on it had an almost satanic ritual icon. On a good day with jarring colours.

Icons matter.

In 2021 we began work on a replacement. In 2022 we finally arrived at a good design with a (2/3)

grote, to random
@grote@chaos.social avatar

F-Droid Basic just got released for the first time. Built from the same code as regular @fdroidorg, it comes with a reduced feature set (no nearby share and no panic feature). Also it targets Android 13 and will soon be able to do unattended updates.

amarok,
@amarok@mastodonczech.cz avatar

@grote @fdroidorg
Glad to hear that development on continues! But what's the point of having 2 branches? Or will the old one be discontinued?

Natanox, to fediverse
@Natanox@chaos.social avatar

Guess I have to use my range for something good for a change. Please read and if the is important to you.

A few days ago, @Gargron, maintainer of and the big instance mastodon.social, wrote a blogpost explaining how the official app will soon feature his instance as a default.

Voices of the community weren't heard. He even doubled-down on it.

We have to prevent this change.
Please Eugen, .


Eugen’s misguided moves on Mastodon
https://blog.natanox.de/2794/no-guide-eugens-misguided-moves-on-mastodon/

tetrapyloctomist,
@tetrapyloctomist@muenchen.social avatar

@Natanox
Leaving the program does appear to be another step in @Gargron turning his back on the community :mastoflushed:

apps, to random
@apps@toot.fedilab.app avatar

What are your top three favourite apps on ? And why?
Thank you for sharing.

dani,

@RL_Dane @DandyTriangle7569 @apps
I use F-Droid because I want freedom.

Those repos bring freedom-depriving apps. Same as Google Play Store.

Foxboron, to random
@Foxboron@chaos.social avatar

The Wireguard android app is now Reproducible and distributed with Jasons own signing key.

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2023-April/008045.html

Pretty cool.

mynacol,

@Foxboron
Users of the version have to reinstall the app. A guide is in the linked mail.

Why is there no automatic key rollover (switching to the new key with signature from the previous one)? Is lacking that?

jonah, to random
@jonah@neat.computer avatar

It would be cool if took the opposite approach to Google Play App Signing, by using their build system to create a code transparency key that developers could then bundle with their app, and then developers could in turn sign that bundle with their own signing key.

That way F-Droid could distribute apps that they’ve verified reproducible builds for (and check the CT signature in the F-Droid app), without having to sign the app with their own key—a common complaint about the default F-Droid repo.

shadowabsorber,

@jonah well all shadow can do is dream about this as they don't have a huge amount of power to change how works

calculsoberic, to random

https://secretdark2.wordpress.com/2023/05/01/interview-with-molly-white-author-of-web3-is-going-just-great/ Interview with Molly White, Author of Web3 is Going Just Great

@molly0xfff - hope it looks good! thank you again.

gmate8,
@gmate8@mastodon.online avatar

@calculsoberic @molly0xfff I am enthusiastic about blockchain, but I know there are issues like with everything we as humans ever made. I am the most enthusiastic about privacy coins. Even more than regular ones! However, and here comes the interesting part, seems loke is actively developing an electronic financial system that is not blockchain based and is private by default. It is called GNU . It is available from .

Links below!

foss_android, (edited ) to opensource
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foss_android,
@foss_android@mstdn.social avatar
foss_android,
@foss_android@mstdn.social avatar
foss_android,
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mirko, to random German

Es bereitet mir echt Sorgen, mit welcher Vehemenz die anderen Plattformen Stimmung gegen Mastodon machen. Vielleicht sollten sie einfach mal einsehen, dass sie offensichtlich nicht genug dafür getan haben, um die Millionen Social Media Wechsler von ihrer Plattform zu überzeugen. Mastodon kann nichts dafür, der Quelle dieser Flüchtlinge am ähnlichsten zu sein. Aber ich glaube, dass wir an diesem Punkt bereits vorbei sind. Aussagen wie von , die nur die Aufgabe haben, Mastodon zu schaden, sind nur ein Beispiel. Da kann Eugen noch soviel Gegenargumente aufbringen, das Ziel ist erreicht.
Trotz aller Dezentralität merkt man gut, dass sich auch hier substanzlose Diffamierungen und Fake News sehr gut verbreiten lassen. Im Thread von Fdroid gibt es nur eine Handvoll vernünftiger (Gegen-)Stimmen, der Rest hat die Fackeln schon angezündet dabei.
Erschreckend ist auch, dass die Leute gar nicht mehr merken, wieviel Schaden sie damit im ganzen Fediverse anrichten. Der Ruf eines sachlichen Rückzugsortes als Alternative zu den proprietären Hassplattformen bröckelt. Dafür habt ihr nur 1 Jahr gebraucht. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

z428, to random German

Using with recent versions and the web client in parallel already is quite a pleasant experience. Now all it probably needs is notifications to replace Mastodon-API clients here. 🙂

jnbrgr,
@jnbrgr@mastodon.social avatar

@z428
@hankg
@dansup
And it's really time to bring and to , finally to all popular app stores.

z428,

@jnbrgr Maybe starting with just to have updates... 🙂 @IzzyOnDroid to the rescue? At least is FLOSS and should be acceptable already...?
@dansup @hankg

65dBnoise, to fediverse
@65dBnoise@mastodon.social avatar

Anyone know why @fdroidorg marks the @Mastodon android app with "Anti-Features" as "This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service"?

ami, to fediverse

OK @fdroidorg this is just weird. The official Mastodon client depends on non-free services? Sometimes a bit more information could be helpful.

ahriboy, to random
@ahriboy@mk.absturztau.be avatar

Now F-droid is over, what other options for FOSS devs to upload to other repositories alongside Google Play Store and device's own app store?

davevader, to random German

Seit ich laufen habe lerne ich täglich neue Dinge. Was mich etwas erschreckt sind Berichte zu Sicherheitsmängel im - besonders im offiziellen Client, aber auch in moderneren wie aufgrund der zugrunde liegenden Architektur. Der angehängt Artikel ist da meine Hauptquelle.

Als technischer Laie ist es aber schwierig für mich, das einzuordnen. @kuketzblog empfiehlt ja den F-Droid (wobei der letztr Artikel dazu aus 2019 stammt.) 1/2
https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/

eighthave, to random

So the ad on this episode says: "Bitwarden doesn't track your data, only crash reporting, and even that is removed in the F-Droid installation." at around 16:30 https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/720

Maybe not a big deal, but it seems like a new level for : people paying money to promote based on F-Droid's principals, in this case, opt-out data collection is tracking.

stefanm, to fediverse

Ob die Probleme, die der gerade mit hat, vielleicht daher rühren, dass man bei FDroid gerne eine Version der Mastodon-App hätte, die beim Onboarding keine Default-Instanz anbietet?

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron/statuses/110336241347450096

cbt, to random Norwegian

omg hva fader er galt med f-droid! 😆 Ødelegger tilliten min til de ass

tripplehelix, to random
@tripplehelix@fosstodon.org avatar

Noticed is on how is that playable on mobile?

Anstattradler, to random German
@Anstattradler@social.tchncs.de avatar

@FloraIncognita_DE

Da Eure App kostenlos aber eben nicht umsonst ist, sondern sehr nützlich ist, würde ich mich freuen, wenn ich sie auch über beziehen könnte.

yesfreenet, to fdroid Russian
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nuclearfog, to random German
@nuclearfog@mastodon.social avatar

I'd like to add my to but I don't want to change the package name. It's too much work maintaining 2 versions

nuclearfog,
@nuclearfog@mastodon.social avatar

also requires that the package name is a real website hosted by the developer.

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