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
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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⏳
I mean, that’s great from a moral standpoint, but forking android will not also switch the billions of devices running it. The real problem is escaping or changing it at scale
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Have you ever programmed an operating system?
Especially for a handheld device?Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Thousands in Silicon Valley do.
Now watch this comment get downvoted.
Oh no, people are downvoting your braindead trolling? No way!
What’s braindead about QNX?
Is that what I said?
You’d need phone vendors going along with it. Good luck with that.
The biggest way you can help is to TAKE ACTION. Get the ball rolling. Regardless what you think the solution is. Take action to make it happen. Don’t wait on “someone else” will do it. If you don’t have the skills or know how. Reach out to someone who does, keep the ball rolling
I take [political] action by reaching out direct contributions to microkernel development. Folks that have no programming experience can also donate to folks already solving the problems Silicon Valley created.
That’s how I politically roll.
Does anyone know if Huawei phones will be affected as well?
Here is the list of brands that it will affect. For the West, it’s pretty much everything.
😔 Thank you for the list but yeah basically all of them.
“Huawei” isn’t in that list🤦♀️
Huawei here I come!!
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Not that’ll it impact you. No.
