oh sorry guys, flathub can’t push back against vendor abuse because they only have two volunteer reviewers

of course they could if they wanted to, and i hope they choose to want to. here is how they can do it:

1. on new submissions, have a checkbox that the submitter has to check in order to proceed stating “the submitted software does not contain any default-on telemetry components”

2. when vendors lie about this and check the box anyway, and it gets reported to flathub, delete the package because of the ToS violation

@NostalgicKitsune split it into two repos: flathub-OSS and flathub-proprietary then.

@NostalgicKitsune then that is even more silly of an argument: “wanna have a verified app? affirm that your app doesn’t have spyware in it.”

the only reason i am still talking about this is because one of the two reviewers came into my mentions and was very aggressive about his position 🙃

@ariadne @NostalgicKitsune Or maybe proper metadata so it can be per-flatpak, that way it's not just one toggle somewhere and then you're exposed to all kinds of nasty things.

@lanodan @NostalgicKitsune i mean there’s plenty of options they could take. the only reason i am still lampooning them is because one of the two reviewers came into my mentions very aggressively, asserting that the only option is to do nothing 😂

@NostalgicKitsune @ariadne it IS a problem, don't host those.

@kevingranade @NostalgicKitsune i for one would at least prefer to use flatpak to "jail" proprietary applications, so i am fine with flathub carrying them.

@ariadne @NostalgicKitsune I'm aware that GNOME Software has this setting. Although, Fedora has it off by default.

@korbs @NostalgicKitsune cool, but that free software can still have telemetry in it

@korbs This image does not load for me. If I try to view it I get stuck in an infinite Anubis loop.

@noisytoot Yeah, it's just blank loading up the site. Not sure why that is, Anubis is probably the cause for sure. Everything works fine via Tuba app I'm using.

I'll look into fixing my Mastodon instance soon.