@neil I have a suspicion that you are in a similar position to Debian, and that ship may have already sailed upstream?

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Almost every new app on f-droid has slop

@neil is f-droid still relevant after this month tho

@neil Hmm, IMHO, just no. It's bad enough that Google is dumping GenAI into every bit of Android, we don't need more of that.

@neil I just started using F-Droid yesterday. Gemini AI assisted me get started.

@neil Uggg. This is exactly what I was worried would happen, downstreams modeling stuff after this awful GR. We should've just had a proper "we won't make a decision right now" option..

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While I see your point, I'm just acknowledging that more and more people are writing code with AI tools, being pure vibe coding or AI-assisted coding.
There's no going back, we should accept the new reality.

@neil I've been wondering what I should do about the app I've got on F-droid: https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/beecount/4418207/1-25#3
Summary: Don't love the tech, but it's been useful in some circumstances.

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Please, let the #IA #entshittification out of #fdroid !
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@neil so many apps on F-Droid are clearly vibe coded. I literally just downloaded a nice looking launcher, tried it out, checked the source code and it openly said it was a project in vibe coding. Shame as it looked like a nice concept but i can't trust it.

I used to be able to trust that f-droid apps were ugly, buggy, functional, and made with integrity and care. The toothpaste is clearly out of the tube now but it's a shame what we have lost.

@neil in case they (or you) haven’t seen it you might want to draw folks attention to the open jdk policy, which seems more sensible to me in that it doesn’t lay the groundwork for future total acceptance of llm generated floss but still leaves room for debate.