Alexia Aug 25, 2025
www.androidauthority.com/android-developer-verification-requirements-3590911/

I must reiterate. I really like open systems.

This is the opposite of that. It's yet more infrastructure for Google to force dependence on Google Play Services in the wider Android ecosystem.

It's also a great way to kill off a bunch of independent developers that make zero money from their project from publishing software for your platform.

This idea needs to be canned.
Google wants to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developers’ identities

Google wants to make sideloading safer on Android by verifiying the identities of developers who distribute apps outside the Play Store.

Android Authority
Show threadAlexia Aug 25, 2025
Software should not require permission to be written.

Software should not require permission to be distributed.

Software should not have a central entity controlling it.

The future is decentralized, fuck your centralized signature verification checks.
Show threadRyan HydeAug 26, 2025
@alexia @bigzaphod What’s cool about anarchy is that it always works because everyone is altruistic. See also libertarianism.
Show threadSean HeberAug 26, 2025
@RyanHyde @alexia it's not anarchy to want to be free to write and run software without permission. People don't need permission to write a novel or build a contraption in their garage.
Show threadRyan HydeAug 26, 2025
@bigzaphod @alexia False equivalency. Your garage contraption doesn’t have the same potential for harm as software. Your novel can never log my keystrokes.
Show threadzoeAug 26, 2025
@RyanHyde @bigzaphod @alexia cool story, I still don't want google deciding what software I fucking run on my devices and who's allowed to make it
Show threadRyan HydeAug 26, 2025

@zoee @bigzaphod @alexia That’s fine for you to want that. I don’t want that. Both things can be true.

Look, I’m not saying that <Big Tech Company> should have all the power in the world, or at they should be the sole arbiters. But I also don’t think <Whatever Developer> should have free rein. These forces need to be in proper tension for the industry and society to function well.

If you want to make the argument that the system is not currently balanced, I’d agree with you. But I’ll never agree to arguments for an unregulated market.

Show threadJacqueline

@RyanHyde @zoee @bigzaphod @alexia

LMAO there are literally only 2 options: letting people run code on their own personal property, and letting a fucking capitalist act as Big Brother

Aug 26, 2025 at 11:55amWeb
Show threadRyan HydeAug 26, 2025
@burnoutqueen @zoee @alexia 👍
Show threadLi ~ Crystal SystemAug 26, 2025

@burnoutqueen @RyanHyde @zoee @bigzaphod @alexia

i think he wants option 3:

you require permission from the state to make software, and state controls what people run on their phone;

which is functionally equivalent to option 2,

oh yeah, and also your not allowed to point this out, or else your apparently being naive and unrealistic; but ofc; the entire point of this requirement is basically;

so that when someone makes something that is deemed 'malicious' (or, is just pirated, or whatever else they decide,), they can send the police to come and use violence against you.

that's the kinda unwritten part;
since simply requiring id verification on its own does absolutely nothing,

the purpose is to cause harm.