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Feb 27

Sylvia van Os (F-Droid project member) saying "Why is the Graphene dev so insane" in the Aurora Store off-topic room as part of cross-platform harassment.

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Just saying but maybe F-Droid developers shouldn't be organizing raids on our issue tracker and attempting to get people to harass us across different rooms. Explaining our reasoning for wanting a new repository system doesn't justify attacks they coordinated in their dev room.

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They're currently coordinating their fabricated stories and talking points in the public F-Droid development chat room.

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has multiple of these people attending despite their repeated involved in harassment and raids. A board member of the main org involved is a speaker.

All I posted before their outburst of bullying and fabricated stories which started in their developer chat room was information on the Android permission model, how F-Droid presents it incorrectly to users and how that harms users by misleading them in 2 different ways about it.

I stated we intend to add a disclaimer screen to GrapheneOS on this incorrect information in the F-Droid app if they won't fix it, which has been planned for a long time. F-Droid has multiple serious security and usability issues which they have downplayed and refused to fix.

Many of our users use F-Droid as one of their main sources of apps. There are serious known issues with the security of F-Droid' infrastructure, build, signing and app security. If they will not fix these issues, we need to add a warning screen for our users. It's not a "threat".

In many cases, F-Droid has downplayed and refused to acknowledge or fix security issues. They've started making posts with the explicit goal of downplaying the issues and misleading people about them. This will only increase the priority of replacing it and moving users away.