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Holy crap, google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech. At least three apps I know of anyway and I'd imagine the others will follow soon under the exact same reasoning.} Seems to be the case with Husky, Fedilab, and "subway" tooter.
this is a scary precedent if google play is going to ban any apps that can in any way be used to access content with hate speech. So what about a forum client, do they take that down just because there is a forum somewhere on the internet posting hate speech?
This is particularly worrisome because for most people Google Play is the only way they understand to install apps at all.
Picture attached of one of the notices received by fedilab.
https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104761140268193772
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818
@fedilab @tateisu #fediverse #mastoadmin #freespeech #censorship
@freemo All the more reason to stop using #Google to host your stuff and install #fdroid on your phone. #freespeech
@Korsier @SecondJon @freemo AFAICT, #fdroid guys compile their own version directly from upstream source. Therefore, there is a chance that a possible update will fail because of different signatures.
Your best bet would be to remove Husky from #googleplay and install it from fdroid instead. You'll surely lose all your #husky settings in the process, so be sure to save them / note them down.
@SecondJon @freemo I use #Husky and when I installed #fdroid it recognised that I had the app installed. Hopefully it will update the app when the developer releases updates for it.