We regret to inform you that Mastodon has decided to leave the F-Droid Reproducible Builds project.
Going forward, Mastodon updates on F-Droid will be maintained by the F-Droid team and signed with an unique per-app key generated by F-Droid.
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@fdroidorg We did not leave the F-Droid Reproducible Builds project, because we never entered it in the first place. It was not an active decision by us; F-Droid manages their own app repository and decides which apps go in and how they are built. Our development process results in two artifacts, a AAB build for the Play Store, and an APK build that is published on GitHub, both of which are made from the same 100% open-source, GPL code.
@fdroidorg F-Droid representatives asked us to start maintaining yet another build specifically for them; this was not communicated to us as an advance requirement for being on the F-Droid repository. Since the majority of our users are not on F-Droid, and our means are limited, we did not wish to spend engineer time on this, but F-Droid maintainers can maintain such a build on their own.
@Gargron
@fdroidorg I was thinking about why this post showed up in my timeline. Did you boost your own reply? Then I remembered that if someone I follow replies to someone else I follow, I see the post. Now I've learned something new about that #Mastodon design decision: it is a good way to broudcast something to a particular group, without making *all* your followers have to see it. And all while staying algorithm-free. Cool!
@golemwire @Gargron @fdroidorg
It's in the visibility of the post of your answer. You can check public for everyone to see in their timeline or non-listed for not. I believe most apps select non-listed by default for replies.