• Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    honestly surprised more than half of the apps on Flathub are verified! I expected it to be less

    back before the redesign, it felt like most apps had “note: this wrapper is not made by, or affiliated with the original developers” somewhere

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      Linux has always had a strong showing over there. If I had the misfortune of living there I’d certainly want all the privacy and autonomy I could get…

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      Speaking of countries, I’m surprised that China isn’t in the top 10, especially considering their efforts to reduce reliance on US tech.

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        Maybe it’s somehow related with the Great Firewall and they are not included in the statistics correctly.

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        They likely have their own homegrown alternatives, you think Xi the Poo would allow such corruption of his people by giving them access to corrupting capitalist software such as non approved encrypted messaging services?

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          And it’s not like it didn’t have a reason. A lot of closed “capitalist” software has been seen in not very good and honest actions. And the penalties for this were very light. Yes open source mostly is a different story.

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            I’m sure the authoritarian dictator is being benevolent and looking out for the good of his people when building the firewall and locking down the internet.

            Don’t be a fool. Just because you can point to closed sourced bad actors doesn’t mean it was done for anything less than control.

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    How does flatpak make money? I feel like I should be paying for the bandwidth im using since it can’t be cheap.

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      They don’t. They have a CDN sponsor.

      Flathub wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of the following organizations and individuals. Organizations & Infrastructure

      • Codethink
      • Cloud Native Computing Foundation
      • Fastly
      • Mythic Beasts
      • Prerender.io
      • Scaleway