Gregory's Server@fdroidorg to the people that will see this post, this is not inherently bad. This is simply Mastodon moving from app updates in F-Droid to an in-app updater, which is against F-Droid’s inclusion policy.
It’s a very minor difference of opinion, not an indication that Mastodon will become closed source. This has never been so much as implied by the Mastodon team.
@raracool @fdroidorg what worries me more, is that Mastodon does not seem to really care about F-Droid users at all. Although multiple people from the F-Droid team recommended them to communicate the necessary manual update steps it seems like they don't care...