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[โ€“] INeedMana@piefed.zip 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No f-droid? I'm very disappointed

[โ€“] Sunny@slrpnk.net 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Put this in obtanium as an alternative ๐Ÿซถ

https://github.com/fosrl/android

[โ€“] INeedMana@piefed.zip 8 points 4 months ago

It's great that Obtainium exists but that's not my point. Behind pangolin is a company. Which in a way claims to be "one of us" - distributes open source code, with one of proper licenses, etc. Yet, when they deliver a binary, they only put it on big tech service. They didn't say "f-droid coming", which is normal as putting up f-droid builds sometimes takes time, not even "f-droid will be evaluated". Maybe I've become a hardliner but in my book thats a few "sus points" from me

I use pangolin. I use their cloud offer and I'm preparing to move to self-hosted one. But I say: don't throw away wireguard notes yet, pangolin might enshittify once they get a following