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dabockster 5 days ago

The world is moving away from App Stores and walled gardens. Figure out other options.

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bluescrn 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

The world was moving away from App Stores and walled gardens. And then I woke up, and returned to grim reality.

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tonymet 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

that sounds preposterous . can you qualify that?

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bigfishrunning 5 days ago | parent [-]

Linux is up to 5% of the desktop. Gog and Itch.io are DRM-free, and are slowly gaining ground against Steam. Fediverse networks are slowly gaining ground against traditional social media. Signal is more popular then ever.

There will always be lowest-common-denominator users, but there is clearly some demand for an alternative to the biggest 5 websites...

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ohdeargodno 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

>There will always be lowest-common-denominator users,

Interesting play, calling 95% of users "lowest-common-denominator". Those silly, blabbering morons that don't understand that they should be running Bazzite on their Framework laptops instead of using evil evil sofware.

>there is clearly some demand for an alternative to the biggest 5 websites...

This demand doesn't pay, and also happens to be some of the most demanding, entitled users you'll have ever seen.

	▲	bigfishrunning 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I wasn't intending to insult anyone, just to refer to most users as "people who don't want to think about the tools they use, and don't care about privacy". Which i think is true of most people. I never called anyone a moron, they just have different priorities.

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selfhoster11 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Meanwhile, an Android app for some random banking or government thing will require an attested boot chain measured all the way down to the stage 0 ROM burned into the SOC. That's not to say the open ecosystem isn't better, but to say it's winning enough to guarantee sustained general purpose viability is simply untrue.

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TZubiri 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Apt install app

Mmmhmm

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tonymet 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

i see thanks for clarifying