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   Gina (gina@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jun-2026 21:57:19 JST Gina

   • Free Software Foundation Europe
   • Murena - choose freedom!
   • Fairphone
   • F-Droid
   • IzzyOnDroid ✅
   • GrapheneOS
   • Volla
   • The App Fair Project

   🚨 Say that I were to give a talk to EU policy makers and OSS communities at a very big conference tomorrow..

   and that I want to spend half of my talk on how Google is locking down #Android through:
   1. Device attestation
   2. Developer registration
   3. Age/identity verification

   What should I absolutely include? 👀

   Input is welcome, sorry for the short notice. Plain language + realistic calls to action pls.

   @fdroidorg @GrapheneOS @postmarketOS @Fairphone @appfair @fsfe @murena @volla @IzzyOnDroid

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jun-2026 21:57:15 JST Alexandre Oliva

     in reply to

     • Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:
     publishing apps as free software, and not making them mandatory by offering alternate access to services, would go a long way in weakening the dominance and lock-in of the mobile operating system duopoly
     
     governments should go a step further and actively promote the adoption of a sovereign platform, instead of further entrenching the dependency on this duopoly
     
     CC: @Gina@fosstodon.org
     
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     Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: (janl@narrativ.es)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jun-2026 21:57:16 JST Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:

     in reply to

     @Gina My angle is certain necessities of life requiring an app (banking, medical, parking, etc) all of that should be possible without an app. That’s not saying no-apps, just apps-not-mandatory.

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     Gina (gina@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jun-2026 21:57:17 JST Gina

     in reply to

     • Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:

     @janl I really like apps though. They just need to be open source and not reliant on Google's Play Integrity API.

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     Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: (janl@narrativ.es)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jun-2026 21:57:18 JST Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:

     in reply to

     @Gina I would appreciate the not-everything-needs-an-app angle and focussing more on the web as a true open platform. Good luck with it all 🫶🙌🤞

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     Gina (gina@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jun-2026 21:57:19 JST Gina

     in reply to

     Boosting and tagging is appreciated, DM's are welcome too.

     I really want to get this right, so please only use verified information. And yes, I'll be mentioning https://keepandroidopen.org/ extensively.

     (And yes I will also mention Apple and the role of the DMA, but only briefly. More info: https://mastodon.social/@kirschner/116440678455335985)

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     Gina (gina@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jun-2026 21:57:19 JST Gina

     in reply to

     I'll start with the #opensource strategy and EU tech sovereignty package, and good things happening and alternatives being build etc.

     Then mention how the mobile ecosystem is one of the last frontiers left critically assessed.

     I'll share how Google is closing down Android (input welcome!). :android:

     And that we need to promote, fund, regulate and perhaps even build open (EU) alternatives in the mobile ecosystem if we don't want to increasingly become captured by 2 US big tech companies.

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jun-2026 22:25:03 JST Alexandre Oliva

     in reply to

     • Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:
     • Alexandre Oliva
     you may also argue that it is absolutely unreasonable for foreign companies to be entitled to decide who can or cannot get government services, by allowing or refusing accounts that enable the installation of the apps required to get those services, or even to get information about the services. promoting and favoring platforms that enable foreign companies to decide who gets to be a full citizen, and who gets marginalized, and to set the terms and conditions for the enjoyment of digital citizenship, is a disservice to the citizenship, and an unacceptable subjugation.
     
     CC: @janl@narrativ.es @Gina@fosstodon.org
     
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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 08-Jun-2026 02:22:36 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Free Software Foundation Europe
     • Murena - choose freedom!
     • Fairphone
     • F-Droid
     • IzzyOnDroid ✅
     • GrapheneOS
     • Volla
     • Su_G
     • The App Fair Project

     @Gina @Su_G @fdroidorg @GrapheneOS @postmarketOS @Fairphone @appfair @fsfe @murena @volla @IzzyOnDroid That Google (Alphabet, Inc.) is a trillion-dollar surveillance capitalist whose business model of farming people for their data (“people farming”) should be illegal in the EU and that their board and top level management should be sitting at The Hague for complicity in genocide.

     Did I miss anything?