A blog post on F-Droid

Should you recommend arora though? I am not sure how they comply with google's terms

https://fosstodon.org/@snikket_im/106589990254587199 about reproducible builds on fdroid, answers Signal developer's question about signed debs.

I think it'd be a good idea to mention MicroG project too, which provides Free Software implementation of Google Play Services (still connects to Google Services though, but one step better as we use Free Software on our devices). It also comes with FDroid preinstalled as a system app (making installing apps easier than regular install - less prompts from user to install apps).

@Pirate Praveen Thanks for your comments. Should we add Aurora Store as @Pirate Vik asked?

https://www.f-droid.org/en/2019/05/05/trust-privacy-and-free-software.html can be added as well. I think this one also answer Signal developer's concerns.

Sometimes people take anti-features too seriously. I think we can write that they should evaluate these anti-features and not follow them blindly. Example: NewPipe has an anti-feature (the only one anti-feature) that it promotes nonfree network services, which is YouTube. Anyone who would like to watch YouTube using a free software replacement front-end and not directly from YouTube is up for this anti-feature anyway. Similar for Quicksy. F-Droid says Quicksy tracks the users while it only makes phone number registration mandatory for the service and is intended for only those users who have no problems sharing their number with such a service.

@Akshay it does not really scale well if everything has to be handled at a personal level. For somethings, we need to be able delegate decisions to people we trust or we have option to review and correct.

As the famous quote says, 'trust but verify'.

Even when we delegate, there is an element of shared decision making to be applied.

For example, taking (possibly inappropriate) analogy from surgery - the patient might not be able to know what's a better method in a surgery, but the patient should know if there are two options what the pros and cons are and what considerations are made in a decision. Because more often than not we will be surprised about what the patient actually wants.

Similarly, here. What people want or do not changes from person to person.

You can download F-Droid from here https://f-droid.org. You can explore freedom-respecting apps from F-Droid for daily use.

Attach flyer.

A few apps we suggest you can download from F-Droid right away are:

1. Newpipe https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/ (open link in F-Droid app): You can watch YouTube videos without getting tracked, no ads, you can play in background and download videos/audios in your device as well.

2. Indic Keyboard https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.smc.inputmethod.indic/ : Privacy and freedom respecting keyboard to replace Google or default keyboard in your phone. Let's not send whatever we type(like passwords and chats!) to Google.