Captain Beyond

If you’re looking for proprietary apps in F-Droid you won’t find them. The inclusion policy of F-Droid only allows free (libre) apps.

It certainly appears to be a release version (“2.0.1”) but in the build metadata the “current version” is still 1.23. That’s probably why the 2.0 builds still appear to be marked as beta (I assume any version past the “current version” is labelled as such).

I assume per the announcement

We are excited to begin rolling out F-Droid 2.0 to users over the coming weeks after 14 test releases.

they still have the 1.23 build marked as “current” for that reason. I think that’s also the build you get when you click “Download F-Droid” on the home page.

For me the most important thing is that something is free software. I’ve seen people advertise proprietary stuff in this community and have reported it, and nothing has been done. I don’t know if that means my reports don’t federate properly or if it’s tacitly approved by the moderators. I know in the degoogle community there are "trusted’ proprietary apps that are often recommended but this should not be the case in a free software or open source community. In any case, any rule that bans “AI slop” while allowing proprietary products is in my mind backwards.

Regarding “AI slop” I am generally in agreement with Codeberg’s policy which states,

You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by “generative AI”-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex).

I suppose “mostly” is up to interpretation but for me this specifically targets vibecoded apps where there is no or very minimal human involvement. This may be heterodoxy but I actually don’t think “an otherwise human-written codebase with a single line of LLM code” is the same thing as an entirely LLM generated codebase. I think there’s room for nuance especially if the usage is disclosed (I don’t think punishing transparency should be encouraged).