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This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live after 2 weeks:

* everyone has a voice to #keepandroidopen install F-Droid everywhere, make it unavoidable
* Basic 2.0-alpha4 animates things
* #NewPipe reminds you of September
* more downloads stats
* more #FLOSS devs using #AI
+ 38 new apps
& 347 updates
- three archived
~ one downgraded

Elephants in rooms, https://f-droid.org/2026/03/13/twif.html

Normalizing app store choice | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 13 Mar 2026, Week 11 F-Droid core The countdown to September lock-down continues. Did you do your part? Did yo...

Stéphane Calonnec 🗿Mar 14

@fdroidorg I do not want apps made with AI. Is it possible to badge the apps using this ?

Seachaint Mar 14

@scalonnec @fdroidorg Same, very much same. Would be great if F-Droid could be part of the solution here with a flag, when known. There are one or two projects to try and trace projects and influential frameworks using slop, like open-slopware:
https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware

open-slopware

Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. Fork of the repo by @gen-ai-transparency after its deletion.

Codeberg.org

Mateusz 🏳️‍🌈Mar 14

@scalonnec No, because you never know how the code was created.

Stéphane Calonnec 🗿Mar 14

@aemstuz @fdroidorg that's a big caveat, as AI is a very problematic issue regarding reliability and security. Exactly what F-Droid is supposed to provide against Play Store. I don't understand how F-Droid can slip on slop and cry about Google doing sh*t (officially) for security concerns on the same time. We're giving reasons to Google by doing this...

@scalonnec @aemstuz Just by existing we can give anyone any reason they can use for their own rhetoric. 😸

Stéphane Calonnec 🗿4d ago

@fdroidorg Yep Google is turning Android into a nightmare, they don't need help 🤗

Holger Hellinger Mar 14

Uninstall your Linux. And possibly most of your Software on it. 🤷

https://itsfoss.com/news/linus-torvalds-vibe-coding/

Even Linux Creator Linus Torvalds is Using AI to Code in 2026

Linus Torvalds is working on a new side project and he is not hesitating to take the help of AI.

It's FOSS

Stéphane Calonnec 🗿Mar 14

@holger I'm running FreeBSD and if I could, I'd run a BSD on my phone 🤗

Kerplunk Mar 14

F Droid, essential

especially since I purchased my NO GOOGLE
honor 9X Pro.

Dźwiedziu Mar 14

@fdroidorg
> AndrOBD was updated to V2.7.4 after some months of development. Does the changelog sound nice? Oh, new contributors have arrived…

> Copilot made their first contribution in #295
> (…)

You *need* the slop anti-features.

Viktoria D. Richards/Uddelhexe Mar 14

I would want an option to mark Ai made Apps and filter them out.
I don' t want them.

Sabbelnator Mar 14

@v_d_richards @fdroidorg i second that idea

@fdroidorg tried to find fdroid in goog play and no matter what i search it does not appear in the list. I am in South Africa. Weird!

Holger Hellinger Mar 14

🤡 Install from their sources. It is FOSS. 🤷

https://f-droid.org/

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@holger @fdroidorg oh right. I forgot! Will do.

@fdroidorg the only thing I miss in Basic 2.0 is an ability to manually sync the repos. Is it going to be implemented?

@brefox Already available, see repository details screen 😉

@fdroidorg thank! But wouldn't it be better, if you could pull-to-refresh on Apps tab? I have a lot of repos added and find it difficult and time consuming to dive deep into the settings and update each repository separately.

@brefox Is autoupdate not working for you?

@fdroidorg not the well. I could see repos getting updated in the notification panel, but after that I may not get any updates in Apps tab, but it would be available if you open some app. Also, I like to keep auto updates off, but check for them manually when I want or when there's some CVE has been published for an app.

exitcode Mar 15

@fdroidorg add manual check for updates option

@exitcode Already in, check repo details screen titlebar.

exitcode 5d ago

@fdroidorg it's hidden and too many taps away. I am talking about pull-to-check like it was before

@exitcode Is autoupdate not working for you?

exitcode 3d ago

@fdroidorg I don't want to use autoupdate. I check and install updates manually