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   Fedilab Apps (apps@toot.fedilab.app)'s status on Thursday, 21-Aug-2025 04:33:08 JST Fedilab Apps

   Yes, #Fedilab has some differences between its Google Play version and its #FDroid version.
   There are mostly due to restrictions from Google.

   In the Google app we had to remove:

   - Donation links
   - Register an account on Mastodon (as they don't want to understand that the app doesn't collect emails).
   - Filter some search results with #Peertube to exclude "YouTube Downloader" videos

   To Google users, keep in mind you can easily switch to FDroid, we would be happy to help if you have questions

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     Fedilab Apps (apps@toot.fedilab.app)'s status on Thursday, 21-Aug-2025 07:55:09 JST Fedilab Apps

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     • Sidal Solgun

     @sidalsolgun
     No because they can link to their instance while their app can be used by all other instances.

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     Sidal Solgun (sidalsolgun@thecanadian.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Aug-2025 07:55:10 JST Sidal Solgun

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     @apps does same thing apply to Mastodon's official Android app too?

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     Fedilab Apps (apps@toot.fedilab.app)'s status on Thursday, 21-Aug-2025 07:57:30 JST Fedilab Apps

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     • Sidal Solgun

     @sidalsolgun
     We mean for the registration issue

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     Fedilab Apps (apps@toot.fedilab.app)'s status on Thursday, 21-Aug-2025 18:21:58 JST Fedilab Apps

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     • Fnord Prefect
     • 〰️ Sylwia ☕ ⚧️

     @fnord
     @essjotbe Yes, you can use UnifiedPush to get push notifications without Google. Fedilab should work with any UnifiedPush distributor app (https://unifiedpush.org/users/distributors/)

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     Fnord Prefect (fnord@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Aug-2025 18:22:00 JST Fnord Prefect

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     • 〰️ Sylwia ☕ ⚧️

     @essjotbe @apps No UnifiedPush?

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     〰️ Sylwia ☕ ⚧️ (essjotbe@wspanialy.eu)'s status on Thursday, 21-Aug-2025 18:22:01 JST 〰️ Sylwia ☕ ⚧️

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     @apps on the other hand, fdroid version doesn't have push notifications

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     Kristoff Bonne 🇪🇺 🇧🇪 (kristoff@m.krbonne.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Aug-2025 01:45:55 JST Kristoff Bonne 🇪🇺 🇧🇪

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     @apps Is there an easy way to see what version is installed? The "about" version just mentioned the version number (3.33.1 in my case)

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     Nik (nikclayton@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Aug-2025 05:12:33 JST Nik

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     @apps Got more details on that last point?

     Google refusing to allow an app on Play unless it censors content on a competing service should be big news, if true.

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     Fedilab Apps (apps@toot.fedilab.app)'s status on Friday, 22-Aug-2025 05:12:33 JST Fedilab Apps

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     • Nik

     @nikclayton
     It happened with Tubelab which is now a part of Fedilab. Here are the screenshot of the email we received and the screenshot they attached to the email.