CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@davx5app I didn't know that. Another very useful #opensource tool—made in #Europe, just like Linux, #Mastodon,HTTP,HTML,VLC,LibreOffice...Europe has produced so much good, free software. The tech giants from the US are building their entire empire on it and now want to disempower us and force us into a dangerous dependency.Thanks to #DAVx5, I can sync my data without #BigTech.Interesting article about free software from Europe and the role the US plays in it: https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html

@davx5app@fosstodon.org @fdroidorg@floss.social A small suggestion: We should not be using their propaganda term. We're not "side-loading" anything, we're installing programs on our own hardware. Calling it side loading plays into their narrative that we're doing something we shouldn't with our devices. It makes our battle harder, because the average non-techy user will hear side-loading and think it's something subversive and ignore us as we try to convince them this is a bad thing for Google to block.