Today is a very sad day. Apparently, cake wallet has made the asenine decision to abandon their fdroid repository for this other app store called accrescent Which is a centralized store very focused on security but has a central point of failure and can pull apps at any time they wish for any reason or no reason at all or succumb to government take down requests.
Edit: A direct quote from a chat from tux on the cake wallet team.
“Maybe I didn’t make it clear enough the reason we abandoned it was because it stopped letting us update. It broke, and we haven’t been able to fix it and don’t care enough too”
Edit 2: Some more color was given on the issue in today’s Monerotopia episode and apparently it has something to do with a flutter update that could not be avoided but caused breaking issues. I will say that I hope they can re-establish the repository in the future.
For context: https://x.com/cakewallet/status/1864257716891377919
From accrescent faq:
Do apps have to be open source?
"Apps do not need to be open-source to be submitted to Accrescent. Although open-source software provides additional transparency and can make it easier for users to check overall code quality, it is not inherently more secure or private than closed-source software. Likewise, proprietary software is not inherently less secure or private than open-source software. Since Accrescent is focused on security and privacy it wouldn’t make sense for it to restrict developers to a specific source model.
However, Accrescent recognizes the benefits of open-source and so is open-source itself. In the future, apps in the store will additionally be able to be tagged as open-source and filtered for in the client."
https://accrescent.app/faq#open-source
Edit: That is concerning. But what is more concerning to me is the fact that they can pull apps for political reasons or because of government pressure or for any other damn reason they please. And this is not good with governments attacking privacy and becoming more authoritarian.