Hey all, was just looking at Firefox’s new terms of service for their binaries (yuck!) and learned about a new app store called Accrescent.

https://accrescent.app/ (currently down for me)

To me it seems like the major difference is that with F-droid you are trusting the F-droid developers to build the binary correctly from the developers’ source, where with Accrescent, you are trusting that the developers’ binary is really built from their source code.

Then there are other side discussions about build reproducibility. How much does that matter? And some developers don’t like the F-droid build system?

Anyway just wondering what you all think about App Stores on Android Systems?

  • pr06lefs@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Haven’t looked at it in detail. I like F-Droid because the apps seem to be non-predatory OSS that gets the job done. Its not really a ‘store’ though. I think some apps have a paid Play Store release and a free F-Droid release, to make it easy to support the devs if you want.

    Does accrescent support non-free apps?