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How do you avoid “curation” being either called as or actually being equivalent to “censorship”? At the end, isn’t it one entity vs others’ opinion whether the

• rustyminnow 4y ago
  I think the article addresses this pretty well. The answer is even in the title. > If f-droid.org is the one source of software, then our curation would be censorship, since we would be preventing speech. [...] That’s where decentralization comes in. Decentralization means people can choose who they trust in a fine-grained way, not all or nothing. We have put a lot of work into making it easy for anyone to make their own app repos, and those repos can follow any rules that its creators want. Basically, if you curate apps in one location without preventing others from curating/publishing/installing apps to/from other locations (ie decentralization), then it is not censorship