Seeing a lot of outdated apps being recommended, is that safe? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by borzthewolf@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I've come to realize that a lot of foss android apps are pretty outdated and usually abandoned.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 I'm still rather new to the foss world, but in my mind it seems a very outdated app is probably not safe or am I missing something here?

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[-] borzthewolf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I mean yes I use github for reference and sometimes downloading but I don't actually know a whole lot about it like push and pull requests and what not, as I haven't found a need to learn it yet. So what you're saying is to basically download apps from github instead of fdroid to ensure you get the latest?