They've continued this across platforms and are coming up with a fake story / spin about what happened, but I have archives of both the initial abusive behavior in their development room and then what they did on the issue tracker after I responded to that which is linked above.
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I have irrefutable proof that multiple core F-Droid and Calyx developers (substantial overlap) have engaged in bullying, harassment and libel targeting me to advance their own interests. Is anything going to be done by and others platforming these long term abusers?
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Not that it particularly matters, but it's worth noting the topic in question involves them trying to mislead users about the Android platform's app sandboxing and permission system to excuse F-Droid mishandling permissions and giving users inaccurate info about what apps can do.
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They've been criticized by several privacy/security researchers about their approach to this and other things including serious flaws in their build infrastructure, approach to distributing apps and in their app. Instead of improving, they're putting out posts misleading people.
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F-Droid will have to be marked with a warning dialog in GrapheneOS explaining the cross-profile install conflicts it causes which place a substantial support burden on us, security issues with their builds, infra and app and the very misleading inaccurate permission listings.
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They won't fix these problems, and many of our users are using F-Droid. This creates major security issues for our users which they will not address, along with a massive support burden on us where many new users run into the conflicts caused across profiles from app id misuse.
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Very normal for a new GrapheneOS user to install F-Droid, use their main profile, then attempt to install F-Droid in a 2nd user. This doesn't work due to them not updating the download link. We think they're refusing to fix this out of spite towards OSes not bundling F-Droid...
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Any number of profiles can have the same app installed. F-Droid is reusing app ids for different apps, which is not supposed to be done, and causes conflicts, since apks are shared across profiles with the apps installed and key pinning / downgrade protection is applied globally.
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F-Droid is also giving people an outdated download link for F-Droid itself which results in people trying to download and install an outdated version where they hit the downgrade protection check. They can and should just keep the download link up-to-date, but they won't do it.
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I explained why it happens due to their reuse of app ids and also separately because of them posting an outdated download link for F-Droid itself. 2 separate reasons they trigger 2 separate errors (invalid key and downgrade protection) which do have 2 different error messages.