Comment on Luanti (aka Minetest) removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

• TWeaK@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Aurora Store is good enough for most. It’s still on Google Play, but you’re not using the Google Play app and you can even pick which version and see an Exodus tracking report before you download.

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  • RogueBanana@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I would recommend a different front end for fdroid repo like droidify, neo store etc. I haven’t used official fdroid app in ages but the 2 above are pretty good. Has many categories to choose from and search works fairly decent as well.

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    • gegil@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Neo store uses absurdly high amount of system resources. The app itself is laggy, and its quite heavy in background. Droidify is very lightweight compared to neo store.

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  • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have F-Droid and it’s good. I tried Aurora Store but it didn’t seem to have a search function, just lists of a few apps from random categories. Almost reminded me of browsing Netflix.

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    • exu@feditown.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It does have search

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• gegil@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The easiest solution is to use open source alternatives, which can be downloaded directly from developer, use web version of the app, like i do with google documents, or pirate it if it is not available in your region of the store.

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  • other_cat@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yep eventually in the deGoogle quest you just reach a point where you’re like “Well I guess I’m just not using that app anymore. Time to hit up AlternativeTo.net”

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• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They should at least have sideloading as an option

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