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Re: Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid

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Post by bigyabai »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #7
bigyabai wrote: post #2

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 setting…

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.

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.

Re: Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid

#12

Post by giancarlostoro »

inglor wrote: post #8
giancarlostoro wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 thoug…

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.

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

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Post by giancarlostoro »

bigyabai wrote: post #11
giancarlostoro wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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 si…

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.

Re: Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid

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Post by cma »

inglor wrote: post #8
giancarlostoro wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 thoug…

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.

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

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Post by Evil_Saint »

madaxe_again wrote: post #10

I mean, yes, these are religious texts, but if we are to judge them on a level with other content, they absolutely warrant a warning. The abrahamic religious texts intersect largely around the Old Testament, which is a smorgasbord of genocide, slavery, casual murder, infanticide, sexual abuse of all flavours, and all the rest. I guess the question is whether religious texts should be exempt from content warnings, in…

Exempting religious content makes no sense in any context to me. It's all human generated content.

Re: Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid

#19

Post by baobun »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #6
inglor wrote: post #4

Discussion of the merge request to mark it as nsfw https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/27861 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/252 Edit - found more context: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794 I still don't get it to be honest.

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 thoug…

> 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?

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