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I've come to realize that a lot of foss android apps are pretty outdated and usually abandoned. Is that even safe to use? Like even the fdroid archive repository, are those safe to use? I'm still rather new to the foss world, but in my mind it seems a very outdated app is probably not safe or am I missing something here?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yea so, just about most of the apps on the market. Pick a category and once you get through the top apps that are up to date, not far down the list the rest of the apps list their current version and they just get older as you go hence sort by new. There's more outdated apps (I mean by like years) that truly aren't far from the up to date versions