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[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

My, my. Look at all the open source, privacy focused period trackers in the Fdroid store.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago

While this is obviously the solution, being smug and pointing at it as if it's obvious and women are stupid for not knowing about it doesn't help.

If anything we need to figure out how to help women discover drip or whatever alternative we want to recommend. We need to figure out how to get it higher up on the Play Store's search results rather than it being impossible to discover at something like #40 on that list. We need to figure out how to introduce F-droid and related solutions in a way that is as close to frictionless as possible.

Sadly, not everyone is willing to put in the amount of work we are and others aren't even aware of the issues.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

We need to figure out how to get it higher up on the Play Store's search results rather than it being impossible to discover at something like #40 on that list

You pay...no way around that. Google has rigged the search in the store, you will never get a good search location unless you pay.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I mean, yeah. Just remembered someone mentioning that yesterday and wanted to add it, because it's ridiculous.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Yeah it's absolutely insane...I searched for an app just yesterday by exact name, and it still didn't crack the top 20 reaults

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

That's how you know your system is fucked. Searching BY NAME doesn't result in the app appearing as result number 1.

There is absolutely zero excuse or reason for that.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Sorry if it seemed smug at all. The "My my" was more being happy that the Fdroid app repo is pulling it's weight and a valuable resource that fascists seem to over look.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Sorry if I misread. Didn't mean to attack or offend.

I do absolutely agree with you regardless.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

"tech bro" is insulting to people that work in tech that aren't assholes

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Nah. Been working in tech for nearly 30 years, "tech bro" is a delineation. Keeps the fuckers from smearing the rest of us

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Tech bro is practically a slur and doesn’t refer to “dudes that just work in tech”

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

because it lumps us in with a bunch of assholes that are doing bad things with tech

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I don't see it. "Tech bros" are a subset of people in tech. I don't feel lumped with them. It's like saying "reckless drives" is offensive because it lumps normal drivers with assholes.
If anything it's offensive to women. Elizabeth Holmes was a typical "tech bro". Not only men are assholes in tech. It's a discriminatory term.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

A "bro" is a mindset in this sense, not a biological designation.

Women can be "bros".

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