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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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Why is there an org and an account? It seems a bit confusing to find the official one. Especially as both have the same logo and both have a lot of followers. The former seems to be the (chaos.social)

submitted 3 days ago by T_X@chaos.social to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

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Why is there an @fdroidorg and an @fdroid account? It seems a bit confusing to find the official one. Especially as both have the same logo and both have a lot of followers. The former seems to be the official one, though, according to website verification.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Right now the two sides of the Fediverse use a bit of a workaround where the communities show up as "users" on Mastodon, boosting everything that is posted in them. You can see how we see the community here: https://lemmy.ml/c/fdroid

It's hard because adding "community" to the name of all communities would feel redundant and messy for users that are here. They could include a note in the description saying that it's unofficial

I think the best solution would be if Mastodon implemented group functionality in a way that is compatible with the Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin side of the threadiverse :) If it was easier for mastodon users to access the existing communities, then I think everyone would benefit from it