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Can you help a sister out and help me to start using fdroid? Do I just google it? Can I download the fdroid store from Google play store?
You can't download it from the Google Play store. You'll have to download the .APK (application package, the installation file format for all Apps) from this url, there should be a tutorial to guide you further:
https://f-droid.org/
https://f-droid.org/en/
there are other apps than can access F-droid and everyone will soon start replying saying why they think their choice is the only reasonable one and everything else is the worst thing ever, but the official one under that link should be enough to get you started.
The official store is fine, but I personally stopped using it after it constantly made problems and wasn't working properly.
When was that?
The official F-Droid app had an issue with not deleting downloads on systems that didn't run it correctly in the background. That has been fixed some months ago.
I don't know how long it has been, but it has been some months.
For me it got fixed in 1.20.0 from May 8, 2024.
I would recommend Droidify, which uses the fdroid store with a nicer UI.