[bigyabai]

The justification makes perfect sense.

  This Anti-Feature is applied to an app that contains content that the user may not want to be publicized or visible everywhere. The marked app may contain nudity, profanity, slurs, violence, intense sexuality, political incorrectness, or other potentially disturbing subject matter. This is especially relevant in environments like workplaces, schools, religious and family settings. The name comes from the Internet term “Not safe for work”.

[mminer237]

What Bible reader wants that fact hidden? That is the opposite sentiment of everyone I've actually seen. That honestly makes it seem even more illogical.

[watwut]

If you are in islamists run area, you want that hidden. For safety.

[bigyabai]

It's not just Islamists, either. Any religion can become extremist and support all sorts of internationally illegal crimes.

Evangelism is a danger to kids, and unfit for the workplace too. We should not encourage young Americans to indoctrinate themselves with nonsense propaganda that encourages killing.

[giancarlostoro]

I feel like you didn't read the discussion at all? One of the apps does not contain any Bible verses, it is used to track which books, chapters and verses you've read.

[bigyabai]

Does it matter? F-Droid is a distributor, they're allowed to reject apps they consider controversial or outside their wheelhouse. The person who spoke up was correct, the ruling is consistent and the definition of NSFW content makes sense to me. Evangelism isn't exempted from being called and labelled as slopware.

These people can perfectly well distribute their apps without F-Droid's help, they're not refusing to sign their app or somesuch.

[giancarlostoro]

It is not consistent, is the reddit app going to be removed next? It makes no sense. What about violent FPS games?

Consistency would be that they in fact are removing everything that's NSFW.

[mschuster91]

The consistency is that the presence of a Reddit app or a Youtube app per se doesn't reveal too much about the device owner.

A Bible reader/tracker app, a Quran learning app... now that's where you enter a more sensitive area, religious beliefs are among the higher protected classes of data under GDPR.

And now there's a few potential threat sources: family members snooping through their relative's phones, border control snooping through phones (remember, apostasy is a crime punishable by death in some Muslim countries), or the worst one, random ad SDKs pulling in and distributing lists of installed APKs and pushing these to the mothership, where the data can then be hoovered up by anyone willing to pay for it, with the same result [1].

I wish I didn't need to write this, but it's not just some random Middle East theocracy going for its citizens as usual for the crime of not believing into the god of choice, we're seeing people being threatened for their faith (or lack of it) right in the United States of America, right now.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-da...

[baobun]

Would you like to link to the reddit app or a violent FPS game not flagged as NSFW on F-droid? I don't believe either of those actually exists.

And again, nothing was removed from the store here, only marked as NSFW.

[infamia]

Gloomy Dungeons 2 is mentioned in the discussion as an FPS without the NSFW tag:

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/27861#...

The NSFW tag seems unevenly enforced, especially for an organization that is supposed to oppose censorship.

[baobun]

That looks like an oversight that could be addressed with a PR targeting that game.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

> Would you like to link to the reddit app or a violent FPS game not flagged as NSFW on F-droid? I don't believe either of those actually exists.

...all of them? (AFAICT)

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader/

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.btmura.android.reddit/

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/au.com.wallaceit.reddinator/

Actually, let's do it the other way: Can you point to a single reddit app that is marked NSFW?

[48terry]

You went from "the justification makes sense" to "actually they can do whatever they want neener neener" real fast.