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I wasn’t aware that F-droid banned Gab. That is very disappointing. I am not sure why I need F-droid if they’re going to practice the same censorship and politi

I wasn’t aware that F-droid banned Gab. That is very disappointing. I am not sure why I need F-droid if they’re going to practice the same censorship and political bias that the walled gardens of big tech offers.

AWildC182 5y ago
Depends on the rationale. I hope they'd block people who are violating free software licenses
miloignis 5y ago
F-Droid allows you to add your own repositories! I think that's the best of both worlds - you're free to add whatever software sources you like, and F-Droid's not obligated to host content they disagree with, and it all works together nicely in one place.
- kkjjkgjjgg 5y ago
  What does that mean exactly? I could install F-Droid and add the Gab repository, and then install gab via that?
  - miloignis 5y ago
    Yep, that's the idea! I don't know if Gab ended up making a F-Droid repository though, they said they were going to but the tweet seems to have been removed
    - kkjjkgjjgg 5y ago
      One of these days I'll have to look into that, to finally escape from Google :-/
Barrin92 5y ago
>I am not sure why I need F-droid i can only speak for myself but i'm always glad to support competition and open platforms and if they throw racists off their platform that's a plus for me Many economic and software freedom related things wrong with proprietary stores or Google but that they deplatform reactionaries isn't one of them as far as i'm concerned
- throwawaysea 5y ago
  It seems you’re against people having a freedom to express themselves and exchange ideas. Historically denying this freedom accompanies authoritarian societies where propaganda and echo chambers make it seem like these actions are virtuous when they are actually not. Even the word “reactionary” is pejorative and was used widely in Soviet Russia and in China during the cultural revolution. Isn’t it better to let ideas be heard and debated even if controversial or disagreeable?

AWildC182 5y ago

Depends on the rationale. I hope they'd block people who are violating free software licenses

miloignis 5y ago

F-Droid allows you to add your own repositories! I think that's the best of both worlds - you're free to add whatever software sources you like, and F-Droid's not obligated to host content they disagree with, and it all works together nicely in one place.

kkjjkgjjgg 5y ago
What does that mean exactly? I could install F-Droid and add the Gab repository, and then install gab via that?
- miloignis 5y ago
  Yep, that's the idea! I don't know if Gab ended up making a F-Droid repository though, they said they were going to but the tweet seems to have been removed
  - kkjjkgjjgg 5y ago
    One of these days I'll have to look into that, to finally escape from Google :-/

Barrin92 5y ago

>I am not sure why I need F-droid i can only speak for myself but i'm always glad to support competition and open platforms and if they throw racists off their platform that's a plus for me Many economic and software freedom related things wrong with proprietary stores or Google but that they deplatform reactionaries isn't one of them as far as i'm concerned

throwawaysea 5y ago
It seems you’re against people having a freedom to express themselves and exchange ideas. Historically denying this freedom accompanies authoritarian societies where propaganda and echo chambers make it seem like these actions are virtuous when they are actually not. Even the word “reactionary” is pejorative and was used widely in Soviet Russia and in China during the cultural revolution. Isn’t it better to let ideas be heard and debated even if controversial or disagreeable?