F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund's FOSS Sustainability Grant

Well deserved. Though, I have problems in &quot;discovering&quot; apps for a particular purpose. It would have helped if there was a vote-based curated app categories section.<p>My current strategy is googling for &quot;[category (e.g. 2FA or note-taking)] + reddit + open-source&quot; then opening up each suggestion&#x27;s git source and manually look for things like tech stack or project stars or number of contributors.

This fantastic news. It&#x27;s possible to take an android out of the box, install F-Droid and have a reasonably useful phone without even logging into the play store.<p>Glad to see them getting some credit for the hard work!

For me, F-Droid is the apt of Android.

Also check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;droidify.eu.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;droidify.eu.org</a>.<p>The client is better IMHO.

I&#x27;ve got about 80% of my apps that would normally be on F-Droid installed through Obtainium (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ImranR98&#x2F;Obtainium">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ImranR98&#x2F;Obtainium</a>), which handles Git releases (among other sources). The F-Droid client feels clunky and in the past I had some update errors that were annoying. With some improvements it should return to being a good discovery tool and app manager, so this is good news.

I use f-droid and the aurora store. The play store was disabled the day I got the phone. There has been a few issues but I stuck with f-droid for many years. Good for them.

You make a great point! Discoverability is definitely a challenge when looking for open-source apps. A vote-based curated app categories section would be a fantastic addition to help surface the best options. In the meantime, your approach of using Reddit and GitHub metrics like stars and contributors is a smart way to gauge project quality and activity. Hopefully, we’ll see better solutions emerge for open-source app discovery in the future!

OTF&#x27;s money comes from US Congress. They also donated 50M to Signal.<p>I might just have my tinfoil hat on too tight, but this doesn&#x27;t make me feel warm and fuzzy inside.<p>F-Droid also builds AND signs packages themselves on behalf of developers, and even though reproducible builds are a thing, they are not widely used properly or publicly verified often enough for my comfort.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42653176">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42653176</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.privacyguides.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;android&#x2F;#f-droid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.privacyguides.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;android&#x2F;#f-droid</a>

F-Droid is really amazing. It makes you believe there is still good in the world.

F-Droid is indeed a nice alternative for Play Store, but still, it&#x27;s not perfect.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;privsec.dev&#x2F;posts&#x2F;android&#x2F;f-droid-security-issues&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;privsec.dev&#x2F;posts&#x2F;android&#x2F;f-droid-security-issues&#x2F;</a>

For those who don&#x27;t know, there&#x27;s also Neo store, which has F-Droid in it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NeoApplications&#x2F;Neo-Store">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NeoApplications&#x2F;Neo-Store</a>

I like it, gives you the option for older versions as well. When I updated my old browser and the look and feel completely changed, I had to go back years but I eventually found what I liked.

Couldn&#x27;t deserve it more. Makes it easy to install FOSS alternative apps to what you find in the play store which aren&#x27;t infested with dark patterns and adware.

Great news. First place I check for OSS android software. App needs a bit of work but there are open alternatives.

I was having major issues each time F-Droid decided to update itself and then the only app I cared about on it implemented self-updating so I let it go. Has major GIMP vibes IMO.