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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by mqus on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:50PM (#24307065)
I hope that this teaches more people that there are other, sometimes better app stores in android.
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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by heavyset_go on Friday August 28, 2020 @03:14PM (#24308840)
Hopefully it will. Although, Google engages in anticompetitive behavior by hindering 3rd party apps' abilities to autoupgrade, install in the background or batch install apps.

Those intentional limitations mean that F-Droid will never have feature parity with the Play Store.

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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by novaRom on Friday August 28, 2020 @03:55PM (#24309248)
Hopefully Epic Games with their antitrust lawsuits against Google and Apple will succeed and we'll see some positive changes.

For now, the best everyone can do is to promote F-Droid. Many users never heard about YouTube without ads, so getting NewPipe might be a good motivation to try F-Droid.

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