While we don't promote non-#FOSS apps, we can salute #Brave for setting up their own #FDroid repository for #BraveBrowser. @brave how about a fully FOSS browser in f-droid.org next? 😉
How to add? Follow: https://brave.com/blog/f-droid/
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Hey @fdroidorg, there's a very vocal peanut gallery here who cannot and will not understand strategic cooperation.
They've been mindflayed by DataFarms to the point where anything that does not perfectly fit their morality, on all counts, at all times, is the enemy. They would cancel their own Grandma for sending them a Hallmark card on their birthday, because 'promoting evil corporation'.
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Because they don't understand strategic cooperation, they're useless at organising or creating anything. But they do have a knack for trying to dogpile and destroy anything that doesn't conform to their authoritarian morality.
They're very loud, but fortunately they're also completely ineffective. As FSF, FediLab, GIMP, and many other Free Code projects have found, if you do not feed the concern trolls, they eventually find a new shiny thing to hate on.
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@strypey
Mere minutes before these posts, you made another post where you questioned if Firefox was still salvageable, or if it was too enshittified.
Mere minutes before these posts, you made another post where you questioned if Firefox was still salvageable, or if it was too enshittified.
So it feels like you are taking issue with something you just did yourself, only a few minutes before?
Maybe I don't understand? Maybe, you think your complaints are somehow more valid? Or is it to do with the volume of the complaints?
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@jesse
> it feels like you are taking issue with something you just did yourself, only a few minutes before?
The difference is, read in the context of my comments a couple of days ago;
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/114817820420578665
... I'm trying to start a discussion among people who use apps based on Firefox and other software stewarded by Mozilla. About how can work with the developers who work with that software, both inside and outside Mozilla, to fix or replace its fundamentally broken governance.
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What I'm criticising here is people slamming F-Droid for criticising proprietary software wrong. That's right, the post everyone is dogpiling on was not praising Brave, it was criticising them for not publishing all their code under free licenses.
But instead of trying to understand the issues at play, those replies are doing what ChuckGPT does; pick out some keywords and free associate a plausible sentence in response.
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It's the difference between a structural analysis with a call to action, and a Two Minutes Hate.
@fdroidorg @brave I can't, fdroid spine-bending contest 😭
@fdroidorg @brave Interesting, but consider the following:
@fdroidorg I am rather confident in saying that "saluting" them and linking their site constitutes a promotion. What was the rationale behind this post?
@fdroidorg @brave So how long have you been Nazis?
@fdroidorg @brave holy fuck, giving free advertisement to brave???? you should fucking know better. theyre fascist scum that want trans people like me shot dead
@fdroidorg @brave
There's nothing "Brave" about this browser. It's a scam run by a homophobe.
There's nothing "Brave" about this browser. It's a scam run by a homophobe.
Do not promote this bullshit.
@fdroidorg @brave What you're doing in this post is promoting not only a non FOSS app, but one that supports anti LGBT hatespeech & scams. Brave & the company behind it have a long & well known history of hate & running cryptocurrency scams.
@fdroidorg
Who posted this?
Who posted this?
Is this generally fine with other fdroid devs?
Continue to promote fascists enabler (just recently Brendan Eich teamed up with Charles Hoskinson a billionaire that promoted Trump and JFK Jr.), and I may just say goodbye.
I kind of assume this is you Licaon_Kter, is it?
@fdroidorg
dislike... "we don't promote X, but here is a promotion of X" is a bad idea.
dislike... "we don't promote X, but here is a promotion of X" is a bad idea.
I would prefer if it was framed like: "While anybody can create a #Fdroid repository, there is no guarantee that it will contain fully (or even partially!) #FOSS apps. Unfortunately, that is still the situation with #Brave. We appeal to them to make #BraveBrowser fully free software by getting rid of non-free bits, so they can publish on f-droid.org - which guarantees FOSS-only apps"
@fdroidorg are you the same intern from rpi sausage and cop implosion?
@fdroidorg @brave This repo has features you may not like: This app promotes homophobia and cryptocurrency scams.
@fdroidorg @brave perhaps you should have shut your mouth about this turdware?
It's still time for PR damage control.
@fdroidorg
Hey F-Droid, what's a good alternative to F-Droid? One that doesn't duck test for Nazi bar?
@fdroidorg Ah lads come on, you'll be called Fash-droid.
Have you not read up on the state of the person behind that? https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/mozilla-ceo-under-pressure-to-resign-over-homophobic-beliefs/30135706.html
@fdroidorg @brave shame to see you getting rinsed for this. you deserved it unreservedly.
@fdroidorg fuck this web browser made by homophobic cryptobros
@fdroidorg
Have you finally solved your certificate security issues?
@Underfaker Yes, sorry for the short break. Carry on! 😄
@fdroidorg
I'm confused. Checking the related ticket I can See the status is still 'open' and the security problems remain unsolved.
@Underfaker We meant the site certificates issue we had today.
@fdroidorg
Not me. What is the status of the referenced issue?
@fdroidorg @brave quit speaking and never speak again
you are a stain on the foss community for even mentioning brave, we can not and will not salute anyone blatantly opposed to equality and privacy
do something worthwhile rather than promoting garbage
you are a stain on the foss community for even mentioning brave, we can not and will not salute anyone blatantly opposed to equality and privacy
do something worthwhile rather than promoting garbage
@fdroidorg
👍Thanks. Despite all the hate, I cannot say anything negative about #BraveBrowser, it is my Chromium-based browser of choice.
@brave
👍Thanks. Despite all the hate, I cannot say anything negative about #BraveBrowser, it is my Chromium-based browser of choice.
@brave
@fdroidorg @brave how about a FOSS browser that doesn't promote AI and Crypto BS while also being run by awful people?
@fdroidorg @brave how about a FOSS browser that doesn't promote AI and Crypto BS while being run by awful people?
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@fdroidorg @brave Yeah... You should really reconsider promoting Brave of all things.
It's all flavours of yikes combined into one.
@fdroidorg @brave every act is a political act. even failure to act is saying you are okay with this project and everything it stands for: homophobia, ai slop.
There is no neutrality. you are making a political statement, whether you meant to or not. is it one you are comfortable with?
@fdroidorg @brave This is a really shit take, Brave is a scam. Brendan Eich is a tool.
@fdroidorg @brave we are saluting homophobes now??
@fdroidorg Come on F-Droid, do better. Don't promote software repos made by horrible, homophobic people.
@fdroidorg @brave You're saluting the cryptobro reactionaries? For what?! Would you say your "heart goes out to them"?
@fdroidorg More custom F-Droid repositories are great, but I wouldn't go so far as to saluting Brave considering their track record. You took a stance against Gab in the past, please show some moral dignity now too.
(This page is a good summary of some of the issues with Brave: https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/)
