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Alright boys, I've been converted to the light side and have installed F-Droid. Now what? (lemmy.world)
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Basically title. I waited on installing F droid for a long time because my phone threw many scary warnings when I tried a long time ago. But now I have it, and I got some fossify apps, but since there is no "Editor's Picks" on F- droid I dont really know where to go from here.

What apps do you recommend I install first to remove my dependence on closed ecosystems?

What is my vulnerability surface ie, which sort of apps should I watch out for?

Are there any bad faith companies in the open source sphere?

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[-] uuhhhhmmmm@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

Important note: app developers don't publish their apps on the official F-Droid repository. Other people (maintainers) download source code and compiling these apps. Therefore, updates are delayed by a week. You cannot update the app from other source because F-Droid version signed by a different key, so you must reinstall the app, deleting all the data.

I started using Obtainium to get updates directly from GitHub. It also has support for F-Droid and many other sources. I use F-Droid website mostly to discover apps.

[-] nameisnotimportant@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

I feel very dumb but I just installed it and I don't get the logic: do I have to enter every app into Obtainium to make it happen or is there some kind of auto discovery / import that I can use?

[-] uuhhhhmmmm@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

It supports importing apps from the URL list, but not from installed yet.

[-] nameisnotimportant@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks for your answer that's what I was afraid of, that's too much of a chore to hunt for every source and put it in the app, I'll pass for now and keep getting (more or less) delayed updates as usual

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