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inglor | 4 months ago

Discussion of the merge request to mark it as nsfw https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/27861 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/252

Edit - found more context: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794

I still don't get it to be honest.

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giancarlostoro|4 months ago

If it wasn't for the fact that they totally only targeted Bible apps and ignored things like reddit when doing this I would say its just an honest mistake, but they only seemingly marked Bible related apps. In one instance the developers app isn't even an app that contains the Bible, its a Bible reading tracker so you can keep track of which verses you have read thus far, still marked NSFW. There was not enough thought put into this ban and it only seems to target one demographic of apps.

inglor|4 months ago

They seem to disagree https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/27861#...

> We don't flag general apps, e.g., ebook readers and browsers. But bible readers are not general apps. They are designed to read bible and there are NSFW contents in bible.

Honestly I think their argument is pretty weak, especially since like you said in this case it was a bible reading tracker.

baobun|4 months ago

> If it wasn't for the fact that they totally only targeted Bible apps. ［...］ it only seems to target one demographic of apps.

Not true. Quran just as targeted as Bible.

> and ignored things like reddit

What do you mean with "ignored reddit"? There is no official reddit app on f-droid and community clients are flagged with the "depends on or promotes non-free network service" anti-feature.

An offline reading-tracking app being flagged sounds like one false positive that should be corrected, though. Have you tried submitting a PR for it?

ignoramous|4 months ago

> still marked NSFW

"NSFW" is just the name of the F-Droid Anti-Feature, which is quite broad than what "not safe for work" implies:

  ... nudity, profanity, slurs, violence, intense sexuality, political incorrectness, or other potentially disturbing subject matter ...

cakeday|4 months ago

"authoritarian regimes"

It seems someone at F-Droid may have a political axe to grind with the current US presidency and the majority of the population of America who elected (1.)them.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...

BizarroLand|4 months ago

majority of voting population

Don't get me wrong, I hold the "eligible but didn't vote" group equally accountable for the current regime, but it was not the majority of the population that voted for him.

"If "Did Not Vote" had been a presidential candidate, they would have beaten Donald Trump by 9.1 million votes, and they would have won 21 states, earning 265 electoral college votes to Trump's 175 and Harris's 98."

https://www.environmentalvoter.org/updates/2024-was-landslid...