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The no-nonsense apps are a dying breed on Google Play. Even a lot of non-shovelware apps are subscription-only, or don't work if you're offline, or introduce ne
by rchaud 2y ago
The no-nonsense apps are a dying breed on Google Play. Even a lot of non-shovelware apps are subscription-only, or don't work if you're offline, or introduce new enshittification features with each update. At that point, I'm just going to use their mobile website.
F-Droid exists, fortunately. That's where I go if I want simple apps without any BS. Vinyl for music playback, AntennaPod for podcasts, Tusky for Mastodon, etc
- josephcsible 2y agoIndeed. Remember when we lost Simple Mobile Tools? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505229 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505229
- lostmsu 2y agoThe OSS fork called FossifyX is already gone from GitHub. Any idea what happened? Upd. they renamed: https://github.com/FossifyOrg https://github.com/FossifyOrg
- rpdillon 2y agoThat was the best thing that ever happened, because now you can go to F-Droid and just search for 'fossify' apps, and you'll get the newly forked FOSS versions of SMT apps. Now green-themed instead of orange-themed.