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twitter.com/element_hq/sta Disappointing, but not surprising. I'm curious if this is a mistake or the next step in removing apps providing access to messaging platforms without the moderation that's expected. Google has scanning capable of making an account and checking it out.

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Element

@element_hq

Jan 29, 2021

Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's f-droid.org/en/packages/im but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.

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Daniel Micay

@DanielMicay

F-Droid's main repository having out-of-date app versions is completely normal. It's part of why we're not going to be bundling it in GrapheneOS. We do expect that most GrapheneOS users end up F-Droid and likely also Aurora Store, but we have to build something better to include.

1:37 AM · Jan 30, 2021Twitter Web App

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Radical Decentralization

@X54h0IT3

Jan 30, 2021

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Pardon my ignorance. F-Droid has a concept of additional repositories (Bromite uses one for example). Aren't these completely under app's owner control and can be released as often as you like?

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Yes, but that's distinct from the main F-Droid repository that's enabled by default which is a repository from the F-Droid project with their builds of the apps, signed with their keys. In *theory*, they can redistribute a reproducible build of an app with a developer signature.

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That's what I hate about f-droid Its super slow on updates, If they gave developers the choice between building or simply uploading binaries it would receive updates much faster.