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  • Cool idea! THis should be more broadly discussed. After some discussion here, where could we share it with the F-Droid community? Is there a forum or such?

    My five cents: The problem I see is account stuff. You can use F-Droid without an account, and do not want to require an account for ratings. Yet, having no accounts, it is incredibly easy to manipulate votings.

    I would probably prefer a "Git Issue"-like thread for every app, where you have to register. This allows for

    • Deeper conversation, more insightful reviews, instead of "3 starts, UI ugly" (let's face it, this is not the reason why we use F-Droid)
    • Pointing out code lines in the source code. This could help with bug fixes, malicious stuff, etc.
    • ...
  • I guess it is somewhat like paying in cash for your groceries: While anonymous, only you buy at this time of the day your favourite 3 food products, a cup of gluten-free instant ramen and a period product.

    I would be concerned about this scenario:

    • Company X has your TV data (but doesn't know your name, etc)
    • Company Y, Z, ... know your name and have data on you.
    • They buy/share/whatever data and intersect it. Now they can probably connect the data they have on you.
  • But be warned, this doesn’t work for everything: it seems that spending wildly on a wedding ceremony or engagement ring doesn’t have a “sunk cost” effect – it fails to increase the likelihood of staying married.

    LOL

  • Honestly: Any Ubuntu Fork (such as Mint, Kubuntu, etc) is fine, Arch as well(but harder). Vanilla Ubuntu is ok.

    This is not the definitive answer, and you should reevaluate after a time, what you like and don't like, but for a starter, give those a spin.