While F-Droid appears to be "just" an alternative #OpenSource #AppStore for #Android, it is actually the apex of a lifestyle movement that's choosing to use Android only with #FreeSoftware and without #Google or advertising-related #surveillance. Realising that makes many of its features - and shortcomings - easier to understand. I was the main interviewer in the discussion this week on #FLOSS Weekly with core @fdroidorg developer @eighthave and it was a good show.
https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/741?autostart=false
@webmink @fdroidorg thanks again for the discussion! Interesting to hear it framed as a "lifestyle movement", I guess that is a sign that I need to lighten up a bit about free software ;-) But really, that's a key point: people really want ethical tech, and they choose it whenever they can. It is our job when building the tech to make things that don't compromise our own values. Then the users will come. And the software has to really fulfill needs, it is not enough just to be #FreeSoftware
