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Do we trust a centralized app store based on Flatpak more than snapcraft, which is owned by Canonical? What is the difference between these two from a ideological perspective?
Flatpak is completely open source, meaning you can create your own Flatpak repository if you want to, like Fedora does, where they provide a filtered list of packages from Flathub, but only those who are FOSS (or FLOSS, I'm not 100% sure on that).