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uniqx, to foss
@uniqx@chaos.social avatar

It's pretty unsavory how everybody talks about when it comes to platforms for distributing apps. I guess because of . But it's important to take a step back and appreciate that like many other platforms is not a maket place, it's a .

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons

adamsdesk,
@adamsdesk@fosstodon.org avatar

@uniqx Well said.

uniqx, to iOS
@uniqx@chaos.social avatar

I've implemented support for distributing #iOS apps in an #FDroid repository.

https://gitlab.com/guardianproject/pearappstore

There's no F-Droid app for iOS at the moment. However, we've also got experimental support making F-Droid repositories compatible with #AltStore.

kiwix,
@kiwix@mastodon.social avatar

@uniqx Presumably you're aware that F-Droid has a strict policy of not allowing apps that are built with non-free software (using the Free Software Foundation definition)? Can iOS apps be built with fully #FOSS build tools?

uniqx,
@uniqx@chaos.social avatar

@kiwix I don't think they can. So chances are there'll never be a true equivalent of the f-droid.org repo for iOS. It's really up to apple and legislators at this point. But with some compromise on tooling-freedom there's still a lot of potential for improving user freedom.

uniqx, to apple
@uniqx@chaos.social avatar

Just in case you're wondering why & etc. are such jerks about implementing , here are some numbers:

uniqx, to random
@uniqx@chaos.social avatar

I've built an experimental prototype web-app for browsing repositories. It only comes with a very limited set of features, but I'm quite happy how it turned out so far.

https://f-droid.org/2023/06/16/progessive-web-client.html

Screenshot of an app-like website, showing the list of apps of the guardian projects F-Droid repository.
Screenshot of an app-like website, showing F-Droid app listing details of the Orbot app.

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