Post by @tmw@ioc.exchange

2026-09-22 23:25 UTC

is there an alternative client frontend to the official #fdroid app that has an anti-LLM policy? i really don't want something that is capable of installing and updating apps on my phone, of all things, to be slop-ridden; i don't care how minor the commits are or how well they've supposedly been reviewed, and i'm not going to act like it's pointless to try just because some android dependencies might have slop. that's just not how i see it. and i don't need the FSF to tell me "slop's okay actually" for me to change my mind. i can have my own opinions. (i'm working on leaving the android ecosystem entirely, but that will take time.) #NoAI

Replies (3)

@xethos@mastodon.xethos.net 2026-09-23 01:19

@tmw@ioc.exchange Without looking into it ex*ten*sively, just a brief once-over, AuroraDroid looks like a reasonable alternative But I'm not sure just how rigorous you want to be, so I'll leave the actual digging for you https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.adroid/

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@xethos@mastodon.xethos.net 2026-09-23 03:51

@theimpulson@mastodon.social @tmw@ioc.exchange Pulling open repos doesn't sound *nearly* as difficult as keeping Google happy with anonymous devices downloading apps from the store they run If they find it helpful for tiptoeing between and around checks Google runs per-device, I'm not gonna be mad. I expect Google to be shitty and make their life annoying And if that *is* why they used LLMs with their Play Store front end, I would expect the F-Droid client is free of it - especially when they disclose it in the former, but not the latter

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@xethos@mastodon.xethos.net 2026-09-23 04:14

@tmw@ioc.exchange @theimpulson@mastodon.social Sure, and so last message about it, but my "I expect it to be LLM-free" is about *Aurora Droid*, the FOSS-app alternative, with Aurora *Store*, the different, Play Store client, disclosing use of LLMs The "default" F-Droid client you're upset with is not the one I was discussing

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