Good news is that Tusky is available via f-droid. Nowadays, I install everything via f-droid if I can and use play store as a last resort precisely cause of shit like this.
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2021
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I feel this is more the reason to use F-Droid and avoid Google Play store but that's just me.
The problem is, most people don't have F-droid installed - so take up of federated platforms is pretty much always by foss-inclined nerds.
For sure, it would obviously be better if it was available from the official store. The bigger issue here is that computers are slowly turning into appliances nowadays. It's most obvious with mobile devices where the machine is locked from you by default, and you can only install software via vendor app stores. However, this is also starting to bleed into laptops as well with stuff like chromebooks and ms surface.
I think this is an incredibly dangerous trend where general purpose computing is becoming a niche thing.
And since most people don't care about this problem, and don't even understand that there is a problem it's easy for companies to keep locking down the devices they sell more and more with each generation.
Yup! 👍
I hope it's some automated mistake that they'll fix soon. It's not the first time this kind of thing happens, and it's sad.
Based on the YouTube bullshit that has been happening for years now, Google tends to not provide many appeal opportunities for their decisions.
yeah, "mistake"
Google is mainly bots, human workers are really just a few. This is not to defend them, but when shit happens, they're always really late to notice, mainly because of that.
google doesn't exactly have the best track record for these types of "mistakes", prime example being little "accidents" with firefox and other similar examples
this is not to say that automated accidents don't happen, but that now every time something like this happens people are much less likely to trust that it was an honest accident
That's for sure. I believe the last relevant accident was the removal of Terraria's developer YouTube account. No access to his emails either, so no way to reclaim anything back. Somehow I find it too big to be intentional, but who knows. And the situation for the dev must have been horrible anyway.
Considering it's the most known app that blocks a couple far-right instances then this is surprising...
Under the assumption that Google would put in the scrutiny and logic that a potential decision over the livelihood of a dev deserves, it most definitely is surprising.
But instead, this is often precisely the reason for it, because the far-right will review-spam these apps until the AI and/or untrained workers eventually just give in, because well, if many people complain, then chances are that it's actually bad/malware.
And Google doesn't have to give a flying fuck whether such a decision is justified. Actually making a correct decision would cost them a lot more than the lost sales/ads from the app or the bad faith from devs being banned.
The nightly build is still up oddly.