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Okay, then I see even less of a problem. The important thing is to understand that Microsoft is about embrace and extinguish. FOSS is still FOSS. Github is under the control of Microsoft. Not FOSS.
F-Droid is simply honest with you about certain aspects. FOSS doesn't mean that the software is morally flawless, you know? You can easily have extremely awful and fucked up software, while it is still FOSS.
I think you're talking about things that are indeed problematic, but I think they don't have to do with FOSS. It's what those companies, services and softwares are doing. These are two seperate issues.
For example, the fediverse isn't a better alternative because the underlying software is FOSS. It's better because it's decentralized by design. Facebook could be FOSS, and still be awful, manipulating and dishonest. It's a seperate issue.
This is the point, FOSS is great for share, for devs for own projects, for collab.....but of course it is not what many say, FOSS is neither a guarantee of privacy, nor of security and, of course, many times of proper functioning. That is, for a normal user, without programming skills greater than Hello World, all this is not so relevant, he can't really use all the advantages which offers a accesible script nor modify it to his like or fork it, but if a product offers a good TOS and PP, which is not controlled by BigBrother, it works optimally for what he need it, have good support and maintenance, the latter also things where FOSS shines often as non-existent, that is to say that FOSS or any other software or service is only as good as the support community or the dev team behind it. The trustworthy of a soft or a service is based on much more as only a license type, that is only shown in the daily use and in the support and maintenance it receive.