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This subreddit now has forty thousand subscribers! 🎉

This beautiful community was created by u/prcrst twelve years ago. After a plateaued period, we’ve witnessed more growth particularly in the last seven months.

We’re all about free/libre, open-source software (FLOSS) — also known as freedomware — for the Android operating system and AOSP-derived firmware.

Note that free software (freedomware) and freeware don’t refer to the same concept. Freedomware is usually free of charge, but it can legitimately and legally come with a price tag. Free software is a matter of freedom, not price.

Free software is software that comes with permission for anyone to use, copy, and/or distribute, either verbatim or with modifications, either gratis or for a fee. In particular, this means that source code must be available.

(Categories of Free and Nonfree Software)

We love the four essential freedoms. We hate proprietary (nonfree) software, particularly proprietary spyware. These software are created by evil developers and corporations which exploit naïve, oblivious, and fatuous people.

We also love F-Droid!

Since r/fdroid has been set to “private” indefinitely, this subreddit is now the de facto home for all things F-Droid. To cement that fact, there is now an F-Droid flair! Use the flair for all your submissions pertaining to F-Droid: repos, clients, APIs, administration, documentation, or even the Monitor.

Here are a few things about this subreddit:

  • Last week, there were 141,000 page views across the subreddit.
  • Last week, there were 366 new subscriptions.
  • At any given time, there is an average of sixty users active online.
  • The majority of this subreddit’s subscribers are from the United States 🇺🇸, Germany 🇩🇪, and India 🇮🇳.
  • The AutoModerator works really, really, really hard to ensure this subreddit is safe and its content remains relevant.

I hope you all have a great time here as we enter a period of unprecedented growth. Honestly, I love you all! ❤️