I implore any of the #Fedora #Linux contributors out there that might see this, please do not back the new telemetry proposal. I know telemetry can be incredibly valuable for improving the product offered by Fedora and I'm sure some great improvements can be made with it but I see this as your Amazon Lens moment.

If #FedoraLinux goes ahead with this it doesn't matter that the user can opt-out, it doesn't matter that the data is generic, it doesn't matter that it's anonymized, for now until the end of time Fedora will be called a spyware distro. You will hurt community trust in the project far more than anything you will gain from improving the software and I really don't want to see that happen.

@BrodieOnLinux

Opt-out telemetry for distro is such a horrid shortcut. I hope they really know what they're doing and don't push this proposal any further.

Imagine being someone who wishes to install #Fedora in a near future, and then the worst happens: it's burned to the bottom with hateful reviews, everyone jumps ship to Ubuntu and Manjaro, interest of developers maintaining interoperability falls... That would be not a complete darkness, but still sucks.