In my slow paced, but ever steady quest to eliminate my dependence on Google, I have recently moved my contacts to Nextcloud. The application I downloaded to perform the sync, DavX, also does tasks and calendars. This lead me down the rabbit hole of finding an Android calendar app that will actually let me _not_ sync the phone's Google account's calendar. For access to the official app store, I will have to keep a phone signed in to the evil, at least for now...

So, I ended up back in F-Droid and Accrescent looking for calendar apps, and I realized something. These alternate app stores are what the Android world _used_ to be like. They are full of wonderful tools, well designed, with your phone in mind. Finding useful software is a simple search or browse away. There is nary a clicker, idle, or pay to win game to be found. Most importantly, no fucking ads.

The alternate app stores are a glimpse into what corporate greed took from us. They are an example of the kind of things we could have if #enshitification wasn't the order of the day.