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FDroid hasn't provided a solution for browser extensions so there's room for another iteration, perhaps to a federated universal app store, possibly with NFTs.
by benatkin 4y ago
FDroid hasn't provided a solution for browser extensions so there's room for another iteration, perhaps to a federated universal app store, possibly with NFTs. Like with Mastodon you could have allowlists/blocklists of servers rather than individual packages. In the mean time I think FDroid is doing a pretty good job being gatekeepers to prevent malware. Keep in mind, this is being blocked on open source grounds, but they use open source to be able to audit the security of packages. They could allow non-open source source available but that would be extra work and why should they give that to non-open source projects?
- ptx 4y agoHow would NFTs help?
- benatkin 4y agoThere are numerous ways they could help, but it may not be easy. NFTs are just tokens in a blockchain. A few applications that come into mind are: 1. incentivizing reproducing builds, kinda like Solana Validator Nodes (this would work well w/ WASM, but more rewards could be given to those running a container or MicroVM based on an OCI image) 2. DAOs for governance of an instance (like a Mastodon instance, imagine big ones like mastodon.social as well as little ones) (I'm surprised I haven't heard of DAO-led Mastodon instances) 3. Curation - a namespace could require tokens to get a name, just like crypto domain name registries 4. Crowdfunding - you could buy NFTs to crowdfund and then be left with a token that might be worth something
- weberer 4y ago>you could have allowlists/blocklists of servers rather than individual packages That's already how F-Droid works. The default repository only allows FOSS apps, but you can add any third-party repository you want and you'll be able to install its apps from F-Droid. https://forum.f-droid.org/t/known-repositories/721 https://forum.f-droid.org/t/known-repositories/721