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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (17 children)

In what ways do the existing alternatives fall short of compelling?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Can only answer for myself but F-Droid is limited, Aurora is still the Play Store, and Amazon is... depending on your view.. worse than the Play Store itself. A shame the Play Store is the default.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Can you elaborate on "limited"? Surely that is what we want. One of the problems with the Play store is certainly not that it does not have a wide enough selection, but rather that it is full of harmful, hostile, dangerous, exploitive software. Any solution to that problem is necessarily going to limit (or one might prefer to say curate) its contents. That is exactly why I use F-Droid. It is limited to software that is not trying to hurt me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess F-Droid is limited in the sense of low user awareness? Similar to lemmy in the sense that its just not that popular atm, but maybe its gaining popularity?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Sure, but that's not going to be helped by making something new that's "compelling" -- which is the topic at hand

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