@sheogorath It's curated in the sense that they only have open source apps in it. They don't have any real standards beyond stuff being fully open source. The selection of apps is very arbitrary and tons of high quality modern apps are not included in it while tons of obsolete and insecure apps are included. Some apps which would be fine to use are not because they end up doing weird things like downgrading the dependencies
F-Droid has absolutely had fake/scam apps including of one of ours.