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Some Fediverse apps have ban lists within them for certain instances. This has been hugely controversial in Fediverse community, to the point where some apps th

Some Fediverse apps have ban lists within them for certain instances. This has been hugely controversial in Fediverse community, to the point where some apps that fork apps with ban lists and republish them without those ban lists, sometimes get removed from F-Droid! You can't just keep banning Fediverse instances. It's like banning websites. So what is this going to mean? Approved instances. Here's a list of 200 instances ... get on our approved list to be a part of the app. That list might grow to 3000, but if you're not on it, your instance is not accessible. That is where we're heading.

est31 6y ago
> to the point where some apps that fork apps with ban lists and republish them without those ban lists, sometimes get removed from F-Droid! Do you have links? The only example I could think of was Freetusky, which was unmaintained while upstream Tusky itself got regular updates. That's what I'd guess as reason for its quite recent archival: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/commit/f9b7a9540f368f7cd4a85c574b1c1435beed299a https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/commit/f9b7a9540f368f... Latest version is 8.0.7 while upstream Tusky's latest version is 12.1. Back when it was new, the F-Droid devs actually defended Freetusky and didn't follow demands for its removal. https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/1736 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/1736 I don't think that F-Droid should pander to people who don't care about FOSS or maintaining software, no matter their views. Disclaimer: F-Droid maintainer/contributor (but gotten inactive for unrelated reasons). Edit to add: note that another Tusky fork had been uploaded to F-Droid (Husky) before Freetusky got removed.