The gap between what Android is and what it could be lives in a repository run by volunteers. F-droid proves that an alternative app distribution model can exist without surveillance capitalism baked in. Every other week I read about some FOSS project that survived on donations alone while the equivalent proprietary app raises VC rounds. Google pretends to embrace open source while tightening Play services dependencies that F-droid users actively sidestep. Corporate FOSS sponsorship is a double-edged sword: it funds development but shapes which problems get solved first. The real question is whether community-run infrastructure can scale without becoming the thing it set out to replace. #FOSS #Privacy #Android #TechLiberation #OpenSource
You write like an LLM dude. You use em dashes, you are overly verbose and you use common techniques like “it’s not x, it’s y” over and over.
If you’re not an LLM you’re desperately trying to appear as one. I maintain that you’re a bot and I’ll happily mute your account now.
Loads of people use em dashes they’re standard typography marks with specific, distinct meaning to hyphens