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#Google trips over its own words, when they sell you #Android it's the best computing device in the world that does everything. After you bought it Google doesn't let you do anything *you* want to. #Sideload is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk. What Do You Talk About When You Talk About Sideloading? What does Google? Here's #FDroid:

What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you...

If it's not #decentralized, #federated and #FLOSS it's not worthed. Like #Matrix or #XMPP, communications should not depend on a #SPOF in some #BigTech silo.

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What a timing: while I'm sitting at a #CloudAbolition workshop, #AWS takes down major centralised services like #Signal, #WhatsApp and #Teams. Pe...

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is cast live: * #Taler real-world usage * #Castlab to your #DLNA * #Ente + #Tuta = <3 * #TesselGame mania * #VirtualGamePad on Linux now + 8 new apps & 189 updates Fill the board:

From casting to currency | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 17 Oct 2025, Week 42 Community News We’ve featured Taler news before, and while reading about possib...

We took for granted that at least our tech bubble would understand what the Google Decree means for Android, #FLOSS and freedom. Unfortunately we never saw the uproar we were expecting and people just shrugged it off taking for granted that "nothing changes". @npub1s3un...fcs2 great #FDroid post brought the issue into the light, waking up developers, users, media and (we hope) concerned authorities to the immense danger the newly proposed gatekeeping controls Google wants to add. 1/3

Broken links aside (fix incoming), #FDroid raises the case against the #Google developer forced registration once again. We'll skip the small talk, go read, and better yet, spread this wide and far:

F-Droid and Google

For the past 15 years, F-Droid has provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world to find and install free and open source app...

so people are made aware, actions can be taken and #Android is kept truly open!

The intersection of the new #Google Developer Verification Policy and the #EU #DMA needs to be pondered. Article 6.4? Yes, in need of an update, sooner rather than later. #FDroid keeps showing the way forward:

Google Developer Verification Policy and the DMA | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is “the EU’s law to make the markets in the digital sector fairer and more contestable”. F-Droid strongly align...

PSA: If you haven't updated #K9Mail to 12.0, please don't update it. It will crash on start if you use the unified inbox. The bug has been fixed in 12.1 and will be available in the next #FDroid update. #Thunderbird is not affected, kind reminder to consider switching as K-9 will go away in the future anyway. Workaround for now: Make a widget for a single mailbox, then you can open K-9, you can change accounts and disable unified inbox.