Google's continued enshittification of #Android is incredibly upsetting.

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

For the past 15 years, F-Droid has provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world to find and install free and open source apps. When co...

@axel I never did lift a finger to advance that ecosystem, knowing it was liable to exactly this sort of rug-pulling eventually. I might be dragged kicking and screaming to *use* a proprietary ecosystem - to gain access to important people or real-life opportunities. But alas, *advancing* such an ecosystem is doomed in the end to being a fool's errand. I avoid creating any new apps, groups, relied-upon links, relied-upon QR-codes, etc. I just *ruthlessly minimally use* those ecosystems (always keeping in view how to escape them as best as realistically possible), never crossing the line into advocate or developer. #OpenSource #Linux #Android #DataSoverignty
@d1 I'm holding onto #grapheneos for dear life at this point ​
@axel I've got a couple #LineageOS phones myself.