I've officially migrated all of my most important apps over to Obtainium and marked them as ignored in F-Droid. Previously I had used F-Droid for the majority of my apps (Aurora Store for everything else), but following some recent controversies regarding them misclassifying the sacred text of my Christisn faith as "not safe for work" and "pornographic", I decided that it was time to start moving away from them and just start grabbing apps from source directly.
This was also inspired in part by @Vitor Pamplona. In a conversation, he mentioned that something like F-Droid centralizes all authority to one group of people, whereas Obtainium allows you to be fully in charge of what apps you use and when you download them. F-Droid compiles apps themselves, based on the original source code. Meanwhile, Obtainium allows you to grab the apps direct from their repositories, without any middle men.
There's still a place for F-Droid. Because of the fact that they do compile things themselves, that means you're less likely to download a malicious app if it's something you never used before. But if you know the app and it's important to you, you should just download through Obtanium directly.
#decentralization #obtaining #opensource