[CountHackulus]

Guess I'm immediately uninstalling F-Droid. That chain of events looks really poor for them.

[Larrikin]

And using what instead?

[donio]

Not the parent and I will continue to use F-Droid but Obtanium is a popular alternative. It allows you to install apks directly from various supported sources (forges, F-Droid repos etc) so you typically use the apk that the app maintainer has produced in their CI pipeline rather than F-Droid's reproducible builds.

[udev4096]

Closest you'll get is Aurora Store if you don't want to give in to play store

[CountHackulus]

Nothing. I'll sideload what I need to. I didn't find it that useful.