For 15 years, F-Droid has been the antidote to Google Play: no trackers, no ads, just open source apps. Now, Google wants to kill it.

Under the guise of "security", Google is forcing devs to register, pay, and surrender control. F-Droid can’t comply without betraying its principles. Thousands of apps could vanish overnight.

Fight back: demand sideloading rights, pressure regulators/Parliament, and defend one of the safe harbors for ethical tech.

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

@marcprux @fdroidorg

i will state it again and again

i'm against puberty blockers for kids

because to even be considered for blockers, a kid almost certainly has been socially living as their gender for years and deserves to go through puberty alongside their peers

i'm pro HRT

the early effects of HRT are essentially all reversable and essentially every kid put on hormone blockers ends up put on HRT

robbing kids of having their adolescence alongside their peers is wrong

(this does mean puberty blockers for trans masc kids so they can wait a couple years to go alongside the other boys. but you get my point)

fedi: i’m looking for songs that are polyam-affirming, please share your fav songs that are explicitly or can be read in a polyamourous way? boosts appreciated!

🇬🇧👍Estonia won't be approving #ChatControl either.
👎But Germany's vote on Oct. 14th is still up in the air, risk of a dangerous coalition compromise.
💪28 days left to increase the pressure on your government and defend digital privacy and security: https://chatcontrol.eu

Another reminder that you should move to another VPN service.

#proton

https://theintercept.com/2025/09/12/proton-mail-journalist-accounts-suspended/

The nth attempt at introducing EU mandated spyware on your devices has failed again.

See you again in six months I guess.

https://tweakers.net/nieuws/239026/eu-voorstel-voor-chatcontrole-heeft-niet-voldoende-steun.html

🚨Our governments are about to decide whether 450M Europeans deserve privacy - or not.

Help ensure your country says NO to Chat Control: Call you local representatives!

Privacy is not negotiable. Speak up now. ✊ #privacy

👉 More on how to stop Chat Control: https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism

Hey, something that regularly bums me out is that #Lego continues to make Harry Potter products. Lego brings me a lot of comfort, but their complicity in JK Rowling's hate campaign sours that significantly.

As a trans person, it makes me feel kinda helpless and invisible.

So I'd appreciate it if y'all could help me boost this petition across the fediverse, and share it around with group chats, and other socials if you're on them!

Not necessarily because I expect Lego to listen to a change.org petition, but because it would give me a lot more hope and faith in people if the voices saying "Hey, it's really messed up that Lego is doing this" were a lot louder than they are now.

(Alt-text: a change.org petition called "LEGO: End your relationship with JK Rowling and the Harry Potter franchise.")
https://chng.it/mgvbH5qw5h

Some big news I’m really excited to announce:

After development for the past year thanks to Screen NSW’s support through the Digital Games Seed Development Program, my ‘90s MicroProse inspired game Deck & Conn is getting published… by none other than MicroProse itself!

The Steam page is now live - check it out and wishlist it if a turn based retro military space ship command game sounds like your jam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3828500/Deck__Conn/

📢📢📢 Urgent call for action against Chat Control!

The EU still wants to pass the infamous "Chat Control" law, that would mandate scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos. This threatens fundamental privacy rights and can transform EU into a digital Gulag. Currently only 3 countries oppose this law, while 15 member states support it and 9 remain indecisive.

This means, the balance can still be shifted! It is very important to influence at least those who are in doubt. For instance, you can contact a MEP (Member of the European Parliament) and demand to oppose to Chat Control.

There is a tool that automates the process of writing and sending such letters:

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Please check it out and send at least one letter!

#StopChatcontrol

Psst... looking for a new club to join? 👀

Great news, ours is looking for new members: https://codeberg.org

I know I was teasing Bluesky about their implementation of age verification, but the underlying cause is a poorly thought through and drafted law in the UK. Use this page to complain about it to your MP action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp...

Plea for action from Australians copied from Bsky:

If any fellow Aussies think its inappropriate for a registered Australian charity (Collective Shout) to bully an indie website (Itch) into reviewing all NSWF (+ random other) content, and to pretend 'lobbying' is 'charity', here's where you can report misuse of their charity status: https://www.acnc.gov.au/

You're looking for the Raise a concern menu. The option is Raise a concern about a charity.

According to the screenshot, the ABN is 30162159097. As I'm not an Australian, I haven't gone through the process myself.

source: https://bsky.app/profile/eliseswritings.bsky.social/post/3lursey6mqc26

#Austraila #ItchIo #Itch #CollectiveShout

Stages of realizing how good Material Maker has gotten in the last few years https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker

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