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Curation != moderation.

CharlesW 4y ago
That's what they're saying, which is ridiculous. "F-Droid gives you selected apps by default without bans or censorship" is positively thrilling cognitive dissonance.
- senko 4y ago
  You conveniently left out a followup sentence: > F-Droid also makes it easy for anyone to publish their own repository, with their own curation rules.
- luckylion 4y ago
  "We're not manipulating history, we're improving it."
- isaacaggrey 4y ago
  I'm biased to appreciate that F-Droid even exists but providing a default list is not cognitive dissonance, and what you've said suggests that you may have missed the author's point. You can connect whatever "collection of apps" source you desire but you're correct that you do get the "F-Droid List" out of the box. It may feel odd to show no apps when initially using F-Droid but, in theory, one improvement may be to have the user explicitly choose a source list and maybe the "F-Droid List" is first in the list among others. Going in that direction would also help expose that particular feature as I wasn't even aware that you could add / change sources for F-Droid, which sounds like if easy enough to add may be an easier avenue to self publish apps than the major app stores.
hinkley 4y ago
Curation becomes moderation when you get too big. It's the reason that anti-trust laws work differently than the rules that apply to mom & pop shops. It's a constant source of friction with quasi-monopolists, whose employees bristle about how they'd feel if they went independent and their own company was held to these standards. Your $10M company doesn't have to do this stuff. Nor your $1B company 9 times out of 10. But if you're FAANG you're goddamned right you have to follow these extra rules. What I'd hope we'd get in this space here is metacuration. Give me a curated list of curators for subject areas. I want a feed that's 30% environmentalism, 20% futurism, and a mix of random stuff I should care about but maybe don't look at too often. I believe this reduces the censorship element by splitting responsibility into more of a chain.
- guntherhermann 4y ago
  > Give me a curated list of curators for subject areas. I would love this. The closest I can think is a manually-curated RSS feed, and https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
soco 4y ago
Also decentralization is rather contributing to generate those millions of apps - repo A will have a different version of App M than repo B or a fork and anyway similar apps but from different sources and... well good luck.
musk_micropenis 4y ago
Moderation is a part of curation. What is your objection to the term in this case?

That's what they're saying, which is ridiculous. "F-Droid gives you selected apps by default without bans or censorship" is positively thrilling cognitive dissonance.

senko 4y ago
You conveniently left out a followup sentence: > F-Droid also makes it easy for anyone to publish their own repository, with their own curation rules.
luckylion 4y ago
"We're not manipulating history, we're improving it."
isaacaggrey 4y ago
I'm biased to appreciate that F-Droid even exists but providing a default list is not cognitive dissonance, and what you've said suggests that you may have missed the author's point. You can connect whatever "collection of apps" source you desire but you're correct that you do get the "F-Droid List" out of the box. It may feel odd to show no apps when initially using F-Droid but, in theory, one improvement may be to have the user explicitly choose a source list and maybe the "F-Droid List" is first in the list among others. Going in that direction would also help expose that particular feature as I wasn't even aware that you could add / change sources for F-Droid, which sounds like if easy enough to add may be an easier avenue to self publish apps than the major app stores.

hinkley 4y ago

Curation becomes moderation when you get too big. It's the reason that anti-trust laws work differently than the rules that apply to mom & pop shops. It's a constant source of friction with quasi-monopolists, whose employees bristle about how they'd feel if they went independent and their own company was held to these standards. Your $10M company doesn't have to do this stuff. Nor your $1B company 9 times out of 10. But if you're FAANG you're goddamned right you have to follow these extra rules. What I'd hope we'd get in this space here is metacuration. Give me a curated list of curators for subject areas. I want a feed that's 30% environmentalism, 20% futurism, and a mix of random stuff I should care about but maybe don't look at too often. I believe this reduces the censorship element by splitting responsibility into more of a chain.

guntherhermann 4y ago
> Give me a curated list of curators for subject areas. I would love this. The closest I can think is a manually-curated RSS feed, and https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

soco 4y ago

Also decentralization is rather contributing to generate those millions of apps - repo A will have a different version of App M than repo B or a fork and anyway similar apps but from different sources and... well good luck.

musk_micropenis 4y ago

Moderation is a part of curation. What is your objection to the term in this case?