After today's drama there's a clear takeaway: Apps are not shitposts, even if both are carried over the same protocol. Catalogs are responsible for the apps they publish, and the well-functioning web-of-trust check and warning was not as useful. People just don't pay that much attention and that's a data point, not a complaint on my side. Architecting Zapstore around communities, who own these catalogs, is the way forward for software distribution. I am more sure than ever. The Zapstore software: - provides a great default community - surfaces communities/catalogs people in their WoT are using, and allows easy community management - provides credible exit rather (permissionless at the catalog level, not the app level) @Niel Liesmons has a lot of credit for this one

Zapstore working as intended, despite the bug 💯 View quoted note →

Important clarification: While the UX is confusing, this is not a catastrophe as it may have sounded. The word "download" is ambiguous. This posed no risk whatsoever to current Wisp users who wanted to *update*. Android protects you from APKs signed by a different developer certificate. However, there was a risk for new *installs* but: - users would have noticed this app did NOT come from @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 but instead from a repository "github.com/captain-stacks/wisp" very clearly displayed in the UI. Moreover this appared to be an auto-indexed app added by mistake by a nostr user, no malicious code. That said thank you utxo for sounding the alarm, now this critical bug has been fixed. Just keep in mind forks will appear and this is EXACTLY my thesis of why catalogs need to be protected. Striking the balance between permissionless and safe, is fucking hard. View quoted note →

Issue with duplicate/forked apps is fixed. Original self-published apps are up again. If you still see duplicate apps, go to your profile screen and tap on "Clear local storage". If you keep seeing duplicates, reach out to us. Please share 🙏

Working on a fix. Sorry for the inconvenience. View quoted note →

You can now drop Obtainium! View quoted note →

And junk apps. This is why we are building everything around communities. View quoted note →

Fixing tons of bugs y'all reported in the mobile app, thanks for the feedback! New release coming soon 🫡

It's cool to see AltStore folks recently connecting the dots between app distribution and the social layer for discovery. It has been the vision for Zapstore since the beginning, and I think our primitives are better. They are all in the fediverse. Looking forward to attempting Zapstore iOS later this year.

systemd added birth date storage in order to comply with California, Colorado and Brazil age verification laws. Slippery slope.