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Re:Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid by inglor on Sunday October 19, 2025 @05:29PM (#45638181)
Re:Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid by giancarlostoro on Sunday October 19, 2025 @05:34PM (#45638226)
If it wasn't for the fact that they totally only targeted Bible apps and ignored things like reddit when doing this I would say its just an honest mistake, but they only seemingly marked Bible related apps. In one instance the developers app isn't even an app that contains the Bible, its a Bible reading tracker so you can keep track of which verses you have read thus far, still marked NSFW. There was not enough thought put into this ban and it only seems to target one demographic of apps.
Re:Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid by inglor on Sunday October 19, 2025 @05:36PM (#45638243)
They seem to disagree https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/27861#...

> We don't flag general apps, e.g., ebook readers and browsers. But bible readers are not general apps. They are designed to read bible and there are NSFW contents in bible.

Honestly I think their argument is pretty weak, especially since like you said in this case it was a bible reading tracker.

Re:Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid by giancarlostoro on Sunday October 19, 2025 @05:38PM (#45638265)
Again though, one of the apps has NONE of the Bible content, it is only "I've read Genesis 1:1" type of stuff, it is to track what you've read...

As pointed out in the PR... there's violent games with NSFW descriptions that were not flagged.

The fact they're ignoring so much is what makes me think this has nothing to do with NSFW content removal.

Re:Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid by cma on Sunday October 19, 2025 @05:41PM (#45638291)
A Penthouse reading tracker might get flagged NSFW too without much fanfare, even without any content from Penthouse.
Re:Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid by jaykru on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:46PM (#45647598)
It seems like the point of this comment is to concoct an example for which anyone agreeing with the parent comment would supposedly hold an inconsistent opinion. I'll insert my own consistency: neither should be flagged NSFW.
Re:Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid by cma on Monday October 20, 2025 @04:12PM (#45648702)
Would a Bible reading tracking app be ok for a kids section if F-Droid had one?
Re:Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid by jaykru on Saturday October 25, 2025 @04:38PM (#45706789)
I don't see why not.
Re:Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid by baobun on Sunday October 19, 2025 @05:44PM (#45638313)
> If it wasn't for the fact that they totally only targeted Bible apps. [...] it only seems to target one demographic of apps.

Not true. Quran just as targeted as Bible.

> and ignored things like reddit

What do you mean with "ignored reddit"? There is no official reddit app on f-droid and community clients are flagged with the "depends on or promotes non-free network service" anti-feature.

An offline reading-tracking app being flagged sounds like one false positive that should be corrected, though. Have you tried submitting a PR for it?

Re:Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid by ignoramous on Sunday October 19, 2025 @06:10PM (#45638500)
> still marked NSFW

"NSFW" is just the name of the F-Droid Anti-Feature, which is quite broad than what "not safe for work" implies:

  ... nudity, profanity, slurs, violence, intense sexuality, political incorrectness, or other potentially disturbing subject matter ...
Re:Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid by nathanaldensr on Monday October 20, 2025 @10:50AM (#45644581)
It should read "...as defined by the small clique of politically-identical F-Droid contributors with authority."
Re:Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid by cakeday on Monday October 20, 2025 @11:05AM (#45644780)
"authoritarian regimes"

It seems someone at F-Droid may have a political axe to grind with the current US presidency and the majority of the population of America who elected (1.)them.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...

Re:Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid by BizarroLand on Monday October 20, 2025 @01:13PM (#45646406)
majority of voting population

Don't get me wrong, I hold the "eligible but didn't vote" group equally accountable for the current regime, but it was not the majority of the population that voted for him.

"If "Did Not Vote" had been a presidential candidate, they would have beaten Donald Trump by 9.1 million votes, and they would have won 21 states, earning 265 electoral college votes to Trump's 175 and Harris's 98."

https://www.environmentalvoter.org/updates/2024-was-landslid...

Re:Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid by cakeday on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:29PM (#45647378)
> it was not the majority of the population that voted for him.

Actually it was the majority and I was in that majority. I find it difficult to believe anyone sane with common sense could have brought themselves to vote for Harris and especially not that idiot she picked for VP.

Re:Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid by BizarroLand on Monday October 20, 2025 @03:05PM (#45647843)
I have been told that Magats tend to not be able to accept information that disputes their previously held beliefs.

Thank you for providing such a crystal clear demonstration of that.