They’re creating local copies of apps from F-Droid, with no way for developers to automatically update them, no way to remove apps from their listing, and no plans for either of them so far.
All that will be solved after they’ve launched their store, they’ve said. I’m considering using trademark law to have them take down my app, as I don’t want them redistributing an ancient and outdated version with no update system on the horizon.
F-Droid has the best update process of all stores, but even Amazon and Google Play and some chinese stores have better update and removal processes than /e/ does.