Source.

Simple Mobile apps have been very popular among FOSS enthusiasts. I’ve personally been using the Gallery, Contacts and the Phone app since a few years now. It’s a shame that it has come to this, will be on the lookout for their forks.

  • @9488fcea02a9English
    93•6 months ago

    Wtf. I paid for the apps to avoid exactly this…

    Too many people think the “free” in free software means “without monetary cost”. Development costs money. If nobody pays, it gets sold

    • @[email protected]English
      19•6 months ago

      Same here. Donated not only to cover my installs, but also for everyone I recommended it to. I hope the f-droid version wont be affected, otherwise I have to uninstall the upcomming bloat- and spyware ridden versions manually from a bunch of devices smh.

      I mean I am fine with apps not being maintained and eventually break, but selling out and breaching trust like this is exactly how regular companies would treat me and why I chose FOSS in the first place.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•6 months ago

        Looks like the community is already forking the project. It would be cool if fdroid has a clean transition to the fork.

        • @9488fcea02a9English
          3•6 months ago

          That would be a terrible precedent…

          Oh we’ll just “cleanly” (silently) update to a different fork by a different dev.

          Thats exactly what we are trying to avoid google play “cleanly” updating our apps to the new, spyware apps

          • @[email protected]English
            3•6 months ago

            Agreed

            F-Droid should halt updates if app stops being FOSS (which F-Droid is all about) and then introduce the most popular fork as a standalone app.

      • @9488fcea02a9English
        3•6 months ago

        Yeah… Fuck me, for trying to compensate someone for their work so that they dont have to sell it to a spyware company… I’m the moron here

        /s

    • JustEnoughDucksEnglish
      6•6 months ago

      Yeah I also paid for it.

      I would rather let the project die than my data being sold out to a gang of parasites like it has been

    • Venia SilenteEnglish
      -5•6 months ago

      Wtf. I paid for the apps to avoid exactly this…

      And this is why I never pay for apps. You never know what changes (external or internal) are going to enshittify it next.

      • @9488fcea02a9English
        4•6 months ago

        If you dont pay for apps, they will 100% be enshittified

        Hilarious that you read enough cory doctorow to know the term “enshittification” but don’t know what “free” software really means