I wish we had more forks. The more the merrier.

Funny story: my initial vision for Amethyst was to require every person to fork the repo on GitHub and when they did that, a GitHub action would change Amethyst's name/package id and release the user's own version of the APK, ready to install. One-click deployment type of thing. That was the only way I found to not centralize it on me.

That's why the app is in my personal repo. I was going to change the app id to people's usernames at every new fork-install. It would have been beautiful. True decentralization.

But people love to centralize.

They gave me feedback, I listened to it and decided to ship the app myself in the stores. It's worse, but it got us going.

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