Why would I spend any time building a centralized repo for fdroid when we have Zapstore and Obtainium? Every second working and maintaining these other things is a second less developing Amethyst.
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What about just not promoting play store on webpages or anything?
We don't even talk about it. I always say zapstore first.
Oh, it looks like there's no Amethyst website? Maybe you should set up a simple landing page or ask the community to create one for you, so there's less likelihood of play store being used as the "official link"
If I search right now, the first result on Google is of course the play store, but also the second result is a nostrapps.com page that mainly links to play store
People don't search online when they want to install it. They search directly on the play store. There is nothing we can do to intercept that.
So given the goal of promoting Play Store less, here's an amateurish HTML change I tried
Yeah, but I think that is a fixed template from npub.pro
Then getting npub.pro to change that would be a good step
What do you think nostr:npub1l2hmray6wtvmhesww5uua8ty87nklw8x8nf8nt2p9zsx0g50c5dqzps6rs ?
- F-Droid repo has been excluded by Vitor, because he prefers to spend his precious time promoting spyware PlayStore
- outsourcing Tor library to make the build reproducable and regain trust of the users: very unlikely cos Vitor is resistant to advices and doesn't give a f...
- Conclusion:
#Amethyst is dead for me. What a disgrace.
Zapstore is not compatible with my phone. So it's Obtainium or Play Store for me...
Wouldn’t it be easier to fix the tor build to make it reproducible? (if that is the problem)
More downstream benefits too
Apparently many devs gave tried. It does look hard to make Tor and all their libs reproducible.
Are the builds for amethyst already currently reproducable themselves?
Almost, the Tor libs break our reproducibility
Well that sucks. Is there anyway to decouple? Any chance you have some links to this issue with the tor libs? Its something I'd like to read up on
Waiy i think i just caught up on the issue. Is it basically because youre not buikding and signing your own versuon of the tor aar so the dependency on their signed version breaks it?
I found the tor-android issue with reproducible builds ans submitted a pr. Hopefully i can get this fixed for you in the next month or so if the contributors monitor it.
Have you considered Accrescent? This store is bundled with Graphene OS, could be a nice complement to Zap Store