the thing you must understand now is that regardless of their stated views, liars like Bryan Lunduke, Lennart Poettering, and Dylan M Taylor have demonstrated by their actions that they all have the same goal: a fascist software ecosystem that operates against our interests and exploits but does not empower our labor. it is the destruction of FOSS as we know it.
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Bryan Lunduke has always treated FOSS like a right-wing political project. he has also always misrepresented his goals as technical ones. the current moment is very convenient for him: he is using the valid need for an alternative to systemd to funnel people into fascist-controlled software ecosystems like Devuan and Artix. under no circumstances will Lunduke ever acknowledge the many init alternatives and distributions run by marginalized leftists. this is the game he has played for years.
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when Dylan M Taylor (the author of the age verification code in systemd, Ubuntu, and Arch, and a defender of Google’s dreadful new restrictions for Android apps) and others in his wake compare his age verification implementation with an age gate on an adult site, they know full well that adult content online is a gray area rapidly verging towards illegal as US states and other repressive regimes implement age verification laws.
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they are fully aware that said laws disproportionately punish individual online creators. they must be aware of these things, as they are presenting themselves as experts on the downstream effects of age verification when they state that it’s just like an age gate that can easily be bypassed.
you must understand that the unfairness is the point. you must understand that you are the individual, marginalized online creator who will be punished. that is the point of all this.
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at this point I have no remaining patience for the “if you don’t like it just fork it” crowd. patches don’t fix any of this. the only thing that does is to refuse; to get angry and organize. none of these people deserve your advocacy or your loyalty. they do not give a shit about technical merit, the FOSS ecosystem, your contributions, or you. there is only one goal, and it’s very clear what it is.
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@zzt I hate this so much, thank you for writing such a clear analysis of the situation.
I had a feeling things were going wrong with slop being accepted into systemd, and worse when "left" media personalities started citing the fascist Lunduke as a source.
@taylorlorenz this is why you shouldn't platform that piece of shit.
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