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Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store (en.royanews.tv)
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Google Play has delisted UpScrolled, the "censorship-resistant" social media app founded by Issam Hijazi, following its rapid growth to over 2.5 million users and its brief stint as a top-ranked alternative to TikTok.

While the app remains available for existing users, Google has not provided a specific reason for the removal; UpScrolled's team confirmed they are working with the Play Store for reinstatement while maintaining their commitment to unfiltered content.

This development follows the app's rapid ascent in popularity, particularly amid concerns over content moderation on competing platforms like TikTok.

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[โ€“] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not talking about "now"; I'm talking about the future. Enshittification is inevitable in proprietary software.

Free-software licenses provide risk mitigation against different legal threats or behaviors that are seen as potentially harmful by developers:

Frequently used protective and permissive licenses AGPLv3 GPLv3 GPLv2 LGPLv3 LGPLv2.1 MPLv2 Apache-2.0 BSD
SaaS/cloud Yes No No No No No No No
Tivoization Yes Yes No Yes No No No No
Patent trolling Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No
Proprietization Yes Yes Yes Partial Partial Partial No No
Granularity Project Project Project Library Library File - -
Trademark grant ? ? ? ? ? No No No

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[โ€“] benny@reddthat.com 1 points 19 hours ago

While I agree with what you're saying, this is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Funding sources and incentives also matter, GPL projects don't enshittify, but it can be harder to build a community with those developers who would like a more permissive license, while most but maybe not all Apache projects can remain faithful to their missions and not enshittify. More competition means I as a user can choose from features and other things too, and not just the license.