Oddbean

Due to "anti-features" introduced unilaterally by some people from FDroid community, it is not possible to find Organic Maps using the search in FDroid client without tinkering with its settings first: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/3347 By default, it is possible to find apps with ads, with tracking, with non-free network services, dependencies and assets, apps without source code and with known vulnerabilities. But it is not possible to find Organic Maps, an open-source app without ads and tracking. https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/050/148/770/333/065/original/32eee72d57136c08.jpg

I don't think even RMS would agree. For him there is no meaningful distinction between proprietary and free software when it is running on other people's computers over the network. He would be more concerned with non-free javascript running in your browser than with yt-dlp talking to youtube. He would be happy to have free software to do his tax returns. But it seems f-droid would consider that software as having the "anti-feature" of talking to the IRS.

I could write my own modified peertube which injects media with exploits. My peertube server running free software doesn't help the user. This is why tagging with an anti-feature because "the data comes from youtube" is not helpful and just displays prejudice against apps developed for people who want to watch videos hosted on youtube. Whether youtube can be self-hosted with FOSS is irrelevant. The user is just accessing the data, not producing or serving it.