this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2024
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F-Droid

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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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Congratulations to the team. Nice to see.

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[–] azron@lemmy.ml 24 points 9 months ago

Super happy with the forks and can't wait for the rest to make their way out.

[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Switched instantly, thanks so much!

[–] sutlusalca@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So, what is the difference with Simple Gallery app? Looks exactly the same.

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully as little as possible.

Simple got bought out and will soon be filled with ads

[–] zingo@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh no simple app suite?

Shit! Worst news I heard today. (As I don't read news)

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not to fret, it was very quickly forked

The power of FOSS.

too bad many people won't know it immediately and they'll start getting ads. I remember when Quik Pic was a good app, now it's ad infested.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

too bad many people won’t know it immediately and they’ll start getting ads.

On the bright side, if they installed using F-Droid they probably won't because I would expect F-Droid to refuse to deploy the new compromised version.

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's the people who got it on the play store who will suffer

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I wish F-Droid was well-known enough that I could say it's people's own fault if they used the Play Store instead, but sadly, it isn't.

[–] JungleJim@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago

Licensure. Simple just sold out, this is the fork.

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

What's the difference between this and the OG version? Been using the OG one so I wonder if I should switch

[–] Emanuel@lemmy.eco.br 35 points 9 months ago

The original project was bought by a company known for injecting ads into their apps, so this fork was made by one of the original maintainers in order to keep it ad-free. This is just off the top of my head, so go look into the project if this interests you.

[–] kayaven@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

The OG version is no longer FOSS and was sold to some shady company. So far there doesn't seem to be any changes to the old one yet but I'm sure they'll creep in sooner or later.

Seems like there's been some small improvements to the new version too when it comes to the look and feel.

Edit: just refreshed the comments and all of a sudden 3 other people already explained it, all 30 mins ago? Huh.

[–] JungleJim@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

In regards to your edit, federation means sometimes updates are less synchronous than immediate. Some server somewhere got hung up on the way to serve you that data; maybe your own instance, the OP's, or some third instance or multiple out there in the interwebs. I don't have the technical knowledge to explain beyond that though.

Issues with federation. I get notifications for comments from days earlier sometimes

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

Fair enough. Downloading both, and they'll have to battle it out by giving the best updates

[–] akincisor@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

The way I understood it, the original changed ownership to some shady types. This triggered some concern that has led to the fossify forked versions.

As far as I know there haven't been any releases of the original since the ownership change, so this is a bit preemptive. I prefer that to finding out too late, though.

[–] ravulous@lemdro.id 6 points 9 months ago

This is awesome.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 months ago

Pretty convenient as thats the only simple mobile app i use