Basically title. I waited on installing F droid for a long time because my phone threw many scary warnings when I tried a long time ago. But now I have it, and I got some fossify apps, but since there is no "Editor's Picks" on F- droid I dont really know where to go from here.

What apps do you recommend I install first to remove my dependence on closed ecosystems?

What is my vulnerability surface ie, which sort of apps should I watch out for?

Are there any bad faith companies in the open source sphere?

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[–] RovingFox@infosec.pub 20 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Wait until you find out about Obtainium.

[–] Unmapped@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm loving obtainium. I just found it about 2 weeks ago and, I've been slowly switching everything I had installed with f droid over to obtainium. Only problem so far was one didn't have apk releases. Only a .zip. There is already a issue on github about it and I expect obtainium will be able to handle that in the near future. It has be getting updated a lot lately. Plus version 1.0.0 just released.

[–] RovingFox@infosec.pub 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I did the same when I found it. For some apps I still left the fdroid version, but they update with obtainium.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Im thinking its another app storefront, similar to f droid?

[–] alkheemist@aussie.zone 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Obtainium lets you install FOSS programs directly from the developers source. You can get updates from the github/gitlab of app developers before they get uploaded to F-droid.

[–] crashoverride@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How do I use it? I downloaded it but I don't see the apps on it

[–] alkheemist@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago

You have to add them manually, either by url or with the built in search. For example, you can add newpipe by searching sources and checking github as a source to search. It will then show you repos that match newpipe, which usually is the regular newpipe repo and then a bunch of forks of it.

Obtainium isn't for finding FOSS apps, it's for installing them. To find them, you can check out existing repos such as f-droid or izzy, or you can ask around. This post has a bunch of recommendations in the replies

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Well...?