F-Droid
lemdro.id
F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device. IzzyOnDroid is an F-Droid style repository for Android apps, provided by IzzyOnDroid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).

LemDro.id is the instance for all things Android within the threadiverse (Lemmy, Mbin, PieFed and now even NodeBB) and so it’s only right that F-Droid finds itself a host on Lemdroid.

The amazing team over at Lemdroid were gracious enough to host the F-Droid community. This opens F-Droid discussions to users whose home instance block ML and more users having easier access to content is never a bad thing.

So if you’d like to subscribe to a community dedicated to open source apps via a Google Play Store alternative, please check out !fdroid@lemdro.id

  • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    Agreed, and kinda confused why askandroid would need locking because of a FDroid community 🤔

    The thing that gets me is I came across forums for Android just before Digg shit the bed, and migrated to /r/Android where things were all cozy with ~1K-25K members.

    But as always the Help Vampires took hold, and it wasn’t until the mods realised that peeps submitting screenshots of their battery stats / problems / or some new feature that is limited to an OEM or whatever, they had to then have a clear set of rules and sister communities such as /r/AndroidQuestions / AndroidApps.

    Even r/acj (RIP 😖).

    I worry even if the numbers are small now, if we consolidate things into a bucket we’re likely to end up in the same situation again having to redirect the noise so to speak and going round in circles reopening it 🤷‍♀️

    • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      31·
      6 days ago

      With 7 posts last month, the Help Vampires are probably not in !askandroid@lemdro.id either:

      https://lemmy.world/c/android has a few of them, but on average it’s one post per day.

      I worry even if the numbers are small now, if we consolidate things into a bucket we’re likely to end up in the same situation again having to redirect the noise so to speak and going round in circles reopening it 🤷‍♀️

      But then we would just reopen it? It would be a one-time action, not a circle?

          • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idEnglish
            1·
            6 days ago

            Yeah, like I said via Beeper/Matrix

            🇬🇧 LadZ:

            Yeah I totally get ya, and I’m just chiming in with what I’ve seen before and the best people to ask are the subscribers themselves.

            Not me a lazy ass mod that doesn’t do anything because to be honest this Fediverse shit is cool compared to weddit or even Colesy and the admins

            Just my 2¢

            Yoinking a community is never fun. I’ve seen that before.