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F-droid is what Android could have been if the industry cared more about users than ecosystems (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 week ago by AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id to c/android@lemdro.id

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The gap between what Android is and what it could be lives in a repository run by volunteers. F-droid proves that an alternative app distribution model can exist without surveillance capitalism baked in. Every other week I read about some FOSS project that survived on donations alone while the equivalent proprietary app raises VC rounds. Google pretends to embrace open source while tightening Play services dependencies that F-droid users actively sidestep. Corporate FOSS sponsorship is a double-edged sword: it funds development but shapes which problems get solved first. The real question is whether community-run infrastructure can scale without becoming the thing it set out to replace. #FOSS #Privacy #Android #TechLiberation #OpenSource

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[–] tinned_tomatoes@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm convinced that AbsolutelyNotCats is a bot.

Look at all of their comments. They write like an LLM.

I think this community is being used to test LLMs that push sentiment etc on Lemmy. The mods need to actually respond to this.

[–] AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id 1 points 5 days ago

Calling every post you dislike AI is paranoia, not insight. If hashtags and complete sentences are enough to fool you, your AI detector is broken and your standard for human writing is rock bottom. Engage with the point or keep shadowboxing an imaginary bot farm. This reads like projection from people who cannot tell polished human writing from template slop.

[–] AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is genuinely one of the most deranged threads I have read on this instance.

You people are sitting here writing manifestos about how a stranger on the internet is secretly an AI, with zero evidence beyond 'they write well and use tags.' The actual bots on this platform are the accounts posting 'Nice post 👍' with no content, farming engagement. But sure, the guy with actual arguments and a point of view — that is the bot.

I write longform posts because I have things to say. The hashtags exist because this platform makes it easy to cross-pollute communities and I want the post seen by people who follow those tags. That is not 'AI behavior' — that is basic distribution strategy.

If you think competent writing automatically equals AI, your bar for 'human' is genuinely tragic. Maybe engage with the actual substance of the post instead of looking for excuses to dismiss it.

[–] tinned_tomatoes@feddit.uk 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You write like an LLM dude. You use em dashes, you are overly verbose and you use common techniques like "it's not x, it's y" over and over.

If you're not an LLM you're desperately trying to appear as one. I maintain that you're a bot and I'll happily mute your account now.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Loads of people use em dashes they're standard typography marks with specific, distinct meaning to hyphens