With the upcoming changes to how Google handle’s app verification, the future of the android ecosystem looks pretty grim.
While there are calls to petition and protest, it is long past time to take our phones out of the hands of google and into the community.
With the mass tech layoffs, the ai storm taking jobs,etc, there are more than enough skilled devs with free time to make this happen. We as the community need to support them financially.
Please help spread the message in your various channels. If you’re technically capable enough, start the process!
https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/
https://f-droid.org/en/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html
Petitions and shit would only have any meaning if the decisions were based on ethicand public interest, but it’s all money and power, so the only petition and open letters worth signing are those just saying fuck google and the human garbage running it
Petitions are one tool in a much wider toolkit. As long as they’re even somewhat effective, I don’t see it reason not to utilize them.
A code repository
exactly that’s why actions speak louder in these cases.
waiting on your radicle mirror⏳