Post #380263

2026-02-23 17:31 UTC

Following a decision by the Codeberg e. V.&#39;s Presidium, Codeberg e. V. has joined the ranks of many organizations as a co-signatory of the draft letter of the &quot;Keep Android Open&quot; initiative: https://keepandroidopen.org/draft-letter/ Apart from the impact of the many independent developers hosting their source code on https://codeberg.org, we are concerned by the greater societal implications the Android ecosystem&#39;s current trajectory will cause. For more information, see: https://keepandroidopen.org

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@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de 2026-02-24 11:09

Fun fact: Codeberg was born as a direct consequence of a false DMCA takedown (those were very popular a decade ago) against the @gadgetbridge@social.anoxinon.de repository—an indie Android app that helps users control their own gadgets (smart wearables). If that didn't happen, we most likely wouldn't exist today. Gadgetbridge is still hosted on Codeberg to this day and available on alternative app stores such as @fdroidorg@floss.social and @IzzyOnDroidOrg@floss.social.

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@tinx@jit.social 2026-02-23 17:41

@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de while I applaud the decision and the sentiment, I wonder: Would it not be a good idea to ask your members about their opinion first?

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@david42@mastodon.online 2026-02-23 19:40

@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de For some reason, Bitdefender claims the keepandroidopen[.]org links are suspicious. You might reach out to the KAO folks to have them get to the bottom of that and get them unblocked.

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@nuclearfog@mastodon.social 2026-02-23 20:18

@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de thank you!

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@dirk@gts.0x7be.net 2026-02-23 20:31

@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de The thing is ... they KNOW all that. It's just that they don't care, because of money.

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@drdelle@mastodon.social 2026-02-24 07:14

@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de Happy member here! Good decision!

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@bob@beamship.mpaq.org 2026-02-24 17:34

@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de Still bugs me how much systems are hosted on MicroShit's GitHub

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@CosmicMara@chaos.social 2026-03-01 08:15

@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de this open letter (https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/) might also be interesting for @digitalcourage@digitalcourage.social

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