 Unlike Google, F-Droid does not force developers to publicize their name or address information. We understand that people have many reasons to develop under another name than their legal one and to keep their personal information private. And that what matters is the trust between user and developer, not private details of their lives. For more information on how we designed F-Droid to protect your privacy, see https://f-droid.org/2022/02/28/no-user-accounts-by-design.html. 35 comments
@kgbvax @fdroidorg The same way it works in the FOSS ecosystem and for many F-Droid contributors and app developers already. @kgbvax @fdroidorg if a user already knows me as @kgbvax @fdroidorg It's not anonymous, it's pseudonymous. Now tell me, how does which one of the names of a developer you know make a difference?  @kgbvax The same way it goes with basically any software: "This dev has a good reputation, I'll "trust" them" Note I put "trust" between quotation marks.  @kgbvax @kgbvax @fdroidorg as per usual, we trust group names and handles and the work they represent. I trust AssLicker69 much more than Google to develop software that does not spy on me for example   @fdroidorg Any news on unattended installation of updates? If #FFUpdater can do it then you can too :) @fell@ma.fellr.net @fdroidorg@floss.social possible with f-droid privileged extension, and (afaik) f-droid basic might be able to do that as well  @fell @Hawkmoon  Oh, I see. Some guy on YT was calling it unsafe. Pushing people to use something called Droidify. I learned about all of this today, so. I don't really know that much. I just wanted to see your comments on his claim would be. @Hawkmoon Experts talk about security all the time, but most users don't even follow security best practices and no amount of security measures built into their phone will make them 100% secure. I know that is I lose my phone, in theory, it would be possible to retrieve all data off it — and it's always best to assume that because it's a matter of how much effort one is willing to put into accessing your data: petty thief doesn't care about it at all, he just wants the device itself… @Hawkmoon …and even full disk encryption won't make it secure against 3 letter agencies. @Hawkmoon Nothing unsafe about it. They ban extremist apps like Spinster so that dangerous ideas can't infect you. @fdroidorg As someone who has published apps onto Google Play I was horrified when I read the news that Google is requiring me to dox myself and publish my legal name beginning 31st August if I want to keep my apps up. I've already privately sent Google my ID like all developers need to do. They know who I am, and can hold me accountable if such a need ever arises. Yet they have complete disregard for individual developers' physical safety and require this to be PUBLIC now. I've used both. The google one was more convenient. But I can see how a lot of people dont want their personals published for literally anyone in the world to see. Google's new policy is a serial killer or stalker's wet dream. I certainly would not publish anything to the play store under this new serial killer facilitation policy. @floweringmind@mastodon.social @fdroidorg@floss.social If book authors can use a pseudonym why shouldn't developers? Why do you expect developers to dox themselves just so you can enjoy the result of their labour? You are completely within your rights to choose to use Google but I just see no reason for thinking that developers not being required to dox themselves sounding horrible.  @Wbud @fdroidorg I mean yeah? That's an "if you're writing the code for the service itself" and such, and has nothing to do with just /using/ it.  @frost @fdroidorg I have no opinion on the topic. The contradiction caused by inaccurate generalizations amuses me.  @fdroidorg It's not like it works anyway. There have been a lot of apps that were taken over through third party acquisition after the fact which avoids stuff like this. (Actually, from what I read Apple has a similar problem with this issue as it's really just kind of a platform mechanism issue.) I imagine some provide fake details anyway. Forcing a lack of privacy honestly isn't very helpful. Lots of stuff from Github make it to F-Droid. Usually more up-to-date at that. Does f-droid have the ability for developers to get paid, or is it only a free software repo? @Hawkwinter @fdroidorg you can put up a donation link in the app description / metadata file in the fdroid store |
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@fdroidorg And how would anonymus "trust between user and developer" work?