They already have massive issues keeping up with updates and leave users with broken and insecure apps for long periods of time. Blocking updates based on fixing their poorly maintained infrastructure and debugging future issues with it is only going to make this worse.
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F-Droid has done little to nothing to address blatant security issues with their app / infrastructure / services, the involvement of untrustworthy people with a history of malicious behavior or the problematic mismatch between their approach and the platform's app source model.
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The sooner it's replaced by trustworthy infrastructure and developers, the better. It's a legacy project that has held back the open source Android ecosystem for years and does a massive disservice to it. It has blocked the development of far better systems for distributing apps.
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I agree with most of your posts, but why do you think F-Droid devs are untrustworthy or even malicious?
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Several of their core developers have been heavily involved in targeting me with libel/bullying/harassment and were involved in organizing multiple raids on our chat rooms and our issue tracker.
would happily sell people out to benefit themselves and likely will.
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I've seen how they've done highly unethical things in order to benefit themselves. They're entirely willing to stab people in the back and sell them out for their own benefit. Not something they're going to stop doing and in the long term people who trust them will regret it.
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Can share screenshots and logs showing highly abusive behavior including several of their core developers engaging in long term, vicious bullying targeting me in response to talking about what's wrong with software, along with other long-term malicious and underhanded behavior.
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I'd definitely be interested, I'm very sorry that there is a huge amount of bullying against you, that's certainly not fair. Thanks a lot for the good work you do!
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twitter.com/DanielMicay/st shows part of their raid on our issue tracker which they organized from the F-Droid developer room along with an example of the highly abusive bullying / harassment they've been targeting me with across a bunch of Matrix rooms, Reddit and Twitter.
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Coordinating a raid on our issue tracker because we decided to use a different app distribution mechanism than F-Droid is unacceptable.
We have valid technical reasons for not using F-Droid. In the past, we were fine with them packaging our apps but now we really aren't anymore.
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There's a far larger archive of this stuff but it's not particularly organized. and several other core F-Droid project members are deeply involved in abusive behavior towards GrapheneOS, our project members and particularly myself. We'll be taking action in response.
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They can expect this to be raised with any conference where F-Droid project members have presentations or are involved in managing. It will be raised with organizations providing funding or working with them. Legal action is going to be taken against the worst offenders.
Spending years targeting someone with a libel campaign trying to portray them as delusional, paranoid, schizophrenic, etc. to target them with bullying and harassment isn't okay. supports this behavior. F-Droid supports this behavior. It will have consequences.
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Will be reaching out to several people and organizations about it today in response to their continued attacks. It's unfortunate they insist on doubling down and taking a path leading to their careers, reputations and software projects being destroyed by their abusive behavior.
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