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

      • cm0002@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        I actually wanted to make it on lemdro.id but something happened with my account creation process and then also discovered that only some people can make comms? Lol

        In any case, I created it because the only other comm was a .ml comm and that wasn’t viable

        But now that it’s on a more fitting instance, I’ll def direct F-Droid bound content there lol

          • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            4·
            4 days ago

            As we know, due to the way Lemmy shows crossposts, the larger community will usually get most of the comments and reactions, while the others won’t get much.

            Recent example

            I already suggested the Lemdro.id admins to lock a few of their communities, even !askandroid@lemdro.id could just redirect to !android@lemdro.id for now, it’s not like any of them are that active besides the main one: https://l.lemdro.id/communities

            • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOPEnglish
              2·
              4 days ago

              There’s a clear division. You’re trying to micromanage and for what. Let communities exist. People that want to go to the biggest community can. There’s been plenty of occasions where I’ve seen more discussions in smaller communities.

              • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                3·
                4 days ago

                for what.

                To make the platform grow, so that at some point very popular topics like Android, Football or Lego do not rely on a single person for activity.

                The main criticism potential new joiners have towards Lemmy is that it’s confusing, because communities exist every twice (!android@lemdro.id vs !android@lemmy.world ) , causing https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/

                Letting communities exist doesn’t work when the main competitor is Reddit that has been established for 15 years. Small communities start, the main poster shouts into the void for a while, then stops posting and leaves the platform. That’s the whole motivation behind !fedigrow@lemmy.zip

                When Reddit started, there were no subreddits. There was a single feed, and everything was there. Then, when there was enough activity, general subreddits started.

                You call it micromanaging, but there needs to be some consolidation at some point for the platform to be sustainable.

                People that want to go to the biggest community can.

                They can’t, in this case, because !android@lemdro.id rules prevents support questions to be asked.

                • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOPEnglish
                  2·
                  4 days ago

                  They can’t, in this case, because !android@lemdro.id rules prevents support questions to be asked.

                  I meant that people can go to another instance. Lemdroid is fine as is. And for the record, you’re not attempting to consolidate, you’re attempting to artificially fluff.

          • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idEnglish
            2·
            4 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 🤷‍♀️