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[–] OrkneyKomodo@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 day ago (10 children)

In addition to what others have said, it can be downloaded from the Accrescent app store:

https://accrescent.app/

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Never heard of that, what's the benefit over F-Droid?

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (7 children)

The main difference is of philosophy of trust. With F-droid you trust F-droid to build the binary from the developers' source code. With Accrescent, you trust the developers to build the binary from the source code.

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

With F-droid you trust F-droid to build the binary from the developers' source code

Not when using a self-hosted F-Droid Repo - which is the case for Ironfox.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah that's like any 3rd party repository

I wish more projects hosted their own F-droid repo and kept it up to date. FUTO has one for their stuff (Grayjay, FUTO Keyboard, etc), but it's frequently outdated, whereas Bitwarden and a few others I use do a good job.

Maybe Accrescent is what I'm looking for. I just want a store that:

  • automatically updates when devs push a release
  • checks signatures
  • has a good selection of FOSS apps

I basically want fdroid, but faster updates.

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