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F-Droid client with Material UI.
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Important feature for the app to make it more usable and family friendly. #581

Open RangerR8 opened 8 months ago

RangerR8 commented 8 months ago

As of now the app shows 18+/Nsfw content (also identified in the anti-features) so it's not safe to use plz turn that off. So people may use this app with ease.

And the app will be family friendly.

TotallyAvailable commented 7 months ago

@zerobun https://monitor.f-droid.org/anti-features 10 out of 4k+

Given that you probably use it on a device with Internet connection, I'm not sure if that's the actual issue. If the Device/App is only ever used under supervision to discover new apps together sure but settings can be changed, custom repos added...what about browser, media player, epub reader, messenger...where does one start and where does it end.

While we are at it...would certainly be great to get toggles added to outright hide apps with known vulnerabilities, not updated since x and containing ads.

Saarsk commented 6 months ago

I'm interpreting this such as that the NSFW anti-feature filter doesn't cover all NSFW apps? Or do you mean it should be hidden by default? Personally, I think there's value in having freedom in what to consume. I have never seen anything NSFW and I don't know what that would be specifically, but I agree that there should be an optional way of hiding such content. For a family device it's up to the parent to set up family friendly systems (just being on the internet without seriously limiting the scope is kind of crazy for a child to be exposed to).

Other than that aspect where I think the responsibility lies with parents, I can see usefulness in being able to restrict certain categories with a password (or authentication). Session based authentication that is (so that you can open a session without having to constantly having to authenticate).

This is somewhat OT, but I'll leave it up. It was written from the interpretation that NSFW apps were slipping by the filter unnoticed: Perhaps it would be useful to have the ability to suggest edits or inclusions/exclusions. Think crowd-curration (based on a clear policy with clear and unambiguous criteria). Either in terms of suggesting apps to be labeled with anti-features or adding a link etc. The anti-features would be the easier one as it's independent from the app page which is set up by the developer, however, I think many developers would see benefit in getting suggestions from users (if links are missing etc.). Non-serious submissions could be reported and be sorted for review (clear violations like spam, not using the channel for the right thing etc.).

Volunteers could sign up to become a "moderator" and to combat griefing, biases, vandalism etc. it could go through several confirmations in order to go through. In the case of unwanted or malicious moderator actions it would lower their credibility weight rating or revoke their access altogether.

Just my two cents. I think the consideration of things like these is important as soon as possible in the process of creating an app store or service, though, improving the system is possible at any time as long as people are interested in the idea. I might not be a developer (maybe some day), but I'd be happy to sign up as a moderator.