☣️ #Mastodon "CEO" stops support for #Android #ReproducibleBuilds in his "official" app because he insists on being able to force his own code to be downloaded to their devices at any time without consent.
🗨️ Dev team: "[we] should never have agreed to have reproducible builds in the first place."
➡️ If you're using this, it's time to switch to one of the many other apps that aren't actively hostile against user freedom. #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android/issues/539
🗨️ Dev team: "[we] should never have agreed to have reproducible builds in the first place."
➡️ If you're using this, it's time to switch to one of the many other apps that aren't actively hostile against user freedom. #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android/issues/539
F-Droid - set updater to opt-in and make it clear it's from Github · Issue #539 · mastodon/mastodon-android
Ongoing discussion: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/371 Disabled latest for now: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/12613GitHub
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Paolo Redaelli
in reply to Michael Downey 🇺🇳 • • •Michael Downey 🇺🇳
in reply to Paolo Redaelli • • •(As opposed to simply informing users a new version is available, etc.)
Paolo Redaelli
in reply to Michael Downey 🇺🇳 • • •Btw the client side is #freesoftware , only the server side is proprietary. A suboptimal choice I admit, it is the biggest tradeoff I'm allowing to myself. Truly #freeasinfreedom #instantmessaging software are not "polished" enough for non techies