I've always felt guilty by taking for granted the rare breed of virtuous humans that provide free excellent software without relying on advertising. Let's change that and pay, how much would I “lose” anyway?

I’ve always felt guilty by taking for granted the rare breed of virtuous humans that provide free excellent software without relying on advertising. Let’s change that and pay, how much would I “lose” anyway?

  • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    €0.00—Aurora Store. Breaks rule 4. €0.00—F-Droid. Breaks rule 4.

    Rule 4: No association with or reference to crypto“currencies” because these are greed incentivizing pyramid schemes.

    They… They are app stores. Aurora is just a reskin of fdroid, they use the same repos What’s the association, the fact that they let you install apps related to it? Bruh.

    • hedgehog@ttrpg.network
      1·
      10 months ago

      I’d expected that rule to eliminate apps like Brave (BAT), Signal (MobileCoin), Telegram (TON), etc…

      Feels weird to rule out a tool because the team accepts donations via cryptocurrency when the tool itself (and presumably other tools by that same developer) has no links to crypto. Obviously this assumes that they accept donations via other means; if not then I can totally understand not wanting to use crypto to donate.

      It’s funny to see someone say “I didn’t send them a donation through PayPal, a crypto exchange, because they accept donations via crypto and I’m morally opposed to crypto.”

    • PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social
      1·
      10 months ago

      Aurora isn’t a reskinned F-Droid and neiter does it use the same repositories. It’s a client for the Google Play Store, but one that doesn’t require an account or Google Services. And that’s not what F-Droid is.

      • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Yeah, my bad, I confused it with aurora droid. In any case, I still don’t get why they break rule 4.

    • 0x00cl@lemmy.ml
      0·
      10 months ago

      Rule 4: No association with or reference to crypto“currencies” because these are greed incentivizing pyramid schemes.

      Aurora accepts cryptocurrencies as donations. And F-Droid also did but apparently its on hold.