Google Removes Tusky From Play Store
Tusky, a fediverse client for Android, has been removed from Google’s Play Store according to its maintainer, @ConnyDuck@chaos.social
. He was not available for comment because his instance will not federate with iddqd.social
, the Pleroma instance this site operates. The fediverse is a vast network of thousands of Twitter clones, all capable of talking to each other, and each having its own moderation standards. Each one of these clones is called an “instance.” This federated model can be applied to other functions online, such as chat rooms.
Even though Husky, a fork of Tusky intent on creating Pleroma API support, is for “Nazis”, it is apparently still available in the Play Store as of the writing of this article. Pleroma is one implementation of the fediverse backend “ActivityPub” protocol, the other noteworthy one being Mastodon.

Big Tech naturally has an incentive to discourage people from using alternatives to their media. This kind of measure is to be expected as their grip on half of America’s population loosens, and while certain headlines might seem like they’re jumping the gun, these headlines are getting vindicated as we speak.

The Guardian reported that “far-right” supporters move to open source to evade censorship this week, which is correct. As various institutions clamp down on online speech, efforts to evade them will increase, and ones that are resilient to subversion or top-down authoritarian control will naturally come to the fore in those efforts. The Guardian’s anti-white screed goes on at length about how right wing content creators are looking for means of producing content that are resilient to Big Tech’s ideological and racial censorship campaigns. This is clearly a problem for the left and we can expect a never-ending cat-and-mouse game with them when it comes to this topic.

Some other noteworthy fediverse developers had comments on this as well, such as soapbox-fe
’s lead developer, Alex Gleason. Tusky has a history of censoring streng verboten instances for being “fascist”, but Tusky’s developer is now whining about being censored himself. Mr. Gleason’s toot had a lively discussion in response to it, probably due to the fact that he doesn’t defederate based on political content. Alex Gleason’s girlfriend is the owner of spinster.xyz
, an instance for “TERFs” or “Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminists.”

Without a doubt, there is a certain irony to leftists who are invested in “cancel culture” also being the first to get removed themselves, as indicated by chaos.social
refusing to federate with iddqd.social
not saving them from Google’s censorship campaign. However, while schadenfreude is an easy response to comeuppance like this, civic values like “freedom of speech” will not persist if we jeer too heavily every time a shitlib’s ideological foibles catches up to them.
So glad big daddy tech tells me what content I can and cannot see. Maybe next they'll choose the length and girth of black dicks to ram up my little white boy asshole.
Didn't this happen with Element just a few weeks ago? Google really sticking it to decentralized platforms.
Yes, it did.
I wonder what Google has to gain though, it's not like they directly compete with Element or Mastodon.
>I wonder what Google has to gain though
public image
If I were paranoid I'd say that a three-letter agency kindly asked them.
I really don't understand how apps like this get removed when web browsers stay up. If mastodon clients let you talk to alt-right groups and whatnot, would it not make sense to remove browsers from their store for the same reason? Obviously not advocating for that, just finding their banning spree a bit hypocritical.
why does chrome get a free pass ? I can see nazi content in chrome, why no one cancel google ?
this pic was/is a screenshot from the play store, kek
the left truly eats itself
ok
>presumably to preclude natzees from saying the gamer word online
At this point shouldn't they ban browsers and internet access?
Pretty hypocritical if you ask me.
check back in 10 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Safe_Browsing
https://contentauthenticity.org/our-members
the finger is on the trigger already, and it's itching to pull. just some more time to lube up the pedestrians and some more happenings to justify it.
we're all on the chopping block.
and all of this because you /pol/tards went nuts after trump elections
If public libraries did not already exist and somebody tried to invent them today, it would be called piracy by book publishers and banned.
If web browsers did not already exist and somebody tried to invent them today...
Just use the web client.
Just build your own Internet.
They brought this on themselves by explicitly blocking certain instances. If they didn't, they can just claim to be the equivalent of an internet browser.
This.
Block lists on clients is absolute cancer and it kills any likelihood that I would care about fediverse, as cool as the concept may be.
It's like if Firefox started implementing a block list that prevented you from visiting certain sites. It's that absurd.
Then again, Mozilla might be stupid enough to actually try that in the name of stopping "hate speech" or whatever.
>Then again, Mozilla might be stupid enough to actually try that in the name of stopping "hate speech" or whatever.
if firefox was in chrome's position, they already would have done something like that. "deplatforming is not enough"
shit like that is planned decades in advance
Bingo. I dropped Tusky for Fedilab when they did this, not because I like Gab that much but because of the dick move. It wasn't even a runtime configuration, it was fucking hard coded in to the app. That was a total loss of trust moment. Ironically if they'd have just waited a year Gab hard forked Mastodon and disabled federation on their end so mission accomplished anyway.
Why would any sane instance any association with those furrypedos from the fediverse?
The 2 most popular instances are independent
>using the fucking play store or any fucking googshill service in 2021
Jesus christ, install FDroid or similar already.
the left eats itself
Leave the tranny instance then retard, as much as I hate the shit they have the right to have their own instance, as does anyone else. That's the entire point of the federared platforms. Choose not to federate with their instances.
Unchecked property rights & individualism & social liberalisation == left?
Censorship of right wing views == left.
yes
americans unironically think this
You don't understand. Not gassing brown people immediately == left.
This but unironically.
That nose isn't big enough
>NNNNNNNOOOOOO YOU CANT JUST MAKE YOUR OWN PLATOFMR!!!!!!!!
someone needs to make a proper freetard alternative to android that the chinks can steal and corner the market with, because having to find the super secret squirrel model-specific dev menu and use ADB to install shit outside of the goolag is unnacceptable
android is apparently unable to install apks natively (without a launcher or "store" or ADB), it seems to have been 'broken' since forever
Fake news. Sideloading APKs is easy.
with adb, which is disabled by default
No. You can just download them from the browser and click the notification.
>No. You can just download them from the browser and click the notification.
>just use a filemanager
that's the installation prompt i was talking about, it is broken on every android device i've used
works on my machine
Stop buying broken Androids then, Pajeet.
>android is apparently unable to install apks natively (without a launcher or "store" or ADB), it seems to have been 'broken' since forever
literally just use a filemanager app lol
Is there a way to take over the app and add Gab, etc. back in, due to its being free software?
There were forks for this but Gab disabled ActivityPub client support on their end for some retarded reason.
What about client side integration? Would be great to follow twitter, etc. Would have to be read only, but that's okay for many use cases.
Easy opportunity to become the main fork using this cuck's work.
>What about client side integration?
You don't understand, Gab turned the ActivityPub API endpoint off entirely. It will not let you lurk from anything other than a browser.
As for combined Fediverse/Twitter clients, Twidere X is working on it.
just parse the full webpage, no biggie.
Who cares, Tusky is malware. Husky is based.
Plus these are the same people who report bomb other clients for not including malware. Tusky absolutely violates Google TOS and which they themselves advocated for.
create your own android store :^)
https://f-droid.org
Lol. They Blacklisted Gab in the source code.
if you decide to censor perfectly legal content don't expect me to give a fuck when someone else censors you
As usual it's the pedos fault
I was here.