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And they are good in that. But, like you said, it's centralized. I am not debating they provide a good service to the community. But it is a platform that drives centralization on them. I wish they simply didn't have a master catalog of anything. Users would be forced to find other lists of apps to trust.
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sommerfeld 2y ago

So your beef with them is that they provide a client that defaults to just their repo? That's fair

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Vitor Pamplona 2y ago

Yep, their defense of open source is awesome. But they do that by attaching the catalog to themselves, in a personal basis.

If you prioritize open source, they are your people. You want decentralization, they are on the opposing corner. Open source tech is not necessarily decentralizing tech.

And I smell pleasure in power from miles away.

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sommerfeld 2y ago

Tbh their client is not even the best one. Droidify is much cleaner and actually defaults to the fdroid repo + izzyondroid.

I get your point but at the same time, if it's fully FOSS it's hard to stay centralized as there's always pressure for competing forks or clones (as was the case with the app client and repo).