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  • Depends on whether you’re going to install apps from the official F-Droid repository or not. Third party F-droid repos (like IzzyOnDroid) are not affected by this.

    Suppose you have some app (a hypothetical Lemmy app) installed from the official F-Droid repo. You logged in an account, changed some settings. Then the developer announces an update: new features, bug and security fixes. It is published on GitHub and Google Play. F-Droid version will come after a few days, when the maintainer builds the app from source and publishes that update.

    You may don’t want to wait till update comes to F-droid. But you can’t install it from GitHub or Google Play, because it is signed by a different key. You’ll have to reinstall the app, which will erase your settings and require logging in again.

    This is the hassle you probably may encounter in the future. If you want to avoid it, install official packages from the developers (from GitHub or Google Play). Obtainium can check for updates on GitHub, official and third-party F-Droid repos, and more.










  • Nitro ads? It’s 1 very minor ad when you launch the app. Then there’s no more ads.

    Recently I launched Discord on desktop and got big splash screen screaming about new shop items. Earlier, I’ve got constant popups about new nitro perks, new avatar decorations, new app icons.

    Not as good as forums? Bull. I get an answer to my question immediately on discord. I may never find the answer to my question by sifting through dozens of pages of forum posts of someone having a similar but not congruent problem to mine.

    You may get an answer immediately, but this answer will be lost after some messages. Someone with the same question may ask it again instead of searching. People in chat may get tired to answer over and over. On forums you have one question 10 years ago and answer to it. No need to ask again.

    Can’t find information? Discord has integrated forums with a search feature in each server.

    Discord’s internal search is very limited, not as good as Google. Discord is very hard to archive, so at some point information will be lost.

    Bloated? How so? You have an inbox and you have your list of servers on the left hand side.

    If you have many servers, you’ll get many notifications and new messages badges. You’ll also have many useless channels, which you need to manually mute or hide.

    it’s because discord doesn’t have E2E encryption and yall wanna discuss some naughty shit.

    I don’t really think encryption is mandatory for every chat app, it has some problems with transferring messages to other devices. If you’re working on some project, you probably don’t want it to be leaked, so you’ll encrypt your messages.