It absolutely is!

He doesn’t owe you shit. You don’t get to harass someone because you don’t like how they spend their free time.

Big “it’s your fault I hit you” energy.

That quote is just total nonsense. There has absolutely never been a “great man theory” of open source. The concept of “forking” is a fundamental aspect of the entire philosophy.

The individuals who do stand out stand out precisely because of their humility and how little (nothing) they ask in return for their contributions.

I expect better from David Gerard. Andrew Tridgell is an S-tier developer that is getting older, and has been asking for assistance for a long time. When help never arrived he turned to LLMs and is now getting insanely harassed for this decision by the exact same people who sat back and refused to help him.

If you ask me the real slop is articles like this from people who prefer to put their energy into bitching and moaning about how someone else spends their free time. The idea that it’s ok to bully someone for the “crime” of not maintaining “critical infrastructure” for free goes against everything FOSS stands for.

You: “Now listen child, and heed my tale of woe…”

Them: “drop it one banana”

Proton is arguably the best option if you’re trying not to rely on Google, and they are slowly building a suite of apps with the goal of directly competing with Google Drive, Calendar, Sheets, etc.

boooo

I stand corrected! Thanks for pointing that out.

A standalone forum is an interesting choice in 2026 when ActivityPub forum software exists.

Looks like there is a Piefed and Lemmy.world community too.

Is this the Google Keep replacement we’ve all been waiting for?

Yeah the best option is the old PC you already have. Unless you’re transcoding video or into LLMs it will be more than enough.

I’m hoping for more niche instances with their own distinct identities and quirks. The threadiverse could really be the best of the old PhPBB universe and reddit.

Lol my first thought too. You chose the no rules instance and you’re upset you’re seeing trash?

Yes the way I see it, is if someone is spending $60/month on 3-5 creators that’s still more money going to “the arts” than if the same person spent double that on streaming services.

Lemmy.world may have ragebait, but every instance is a different experience.

I wish more Lemmy communities took action against the 10-12 accounts who spam stale memes all day, but I think they are afraid of appearing too “dead” to outsiders.

Any platform that

1. Allows users to upload content and
2. Whose revenue is tied to engagement

Will inevitably become overrun with slop. The large platforms have had human slop on them for years, AI is only speeding it up.

What protects the Fediverse is that instance owners have no financial incentive for growth because every piece of content, every federated instance increases their hosting costs. And any instance that somehow becomes too big to properly moderate will quickly become mass de-federated form.

Thank you I was actually so confused lmao I’m like, are they distributing this ET reel in pieces?

I got the lifetime plan on Black Friday back when it was $0.00 I’m really glad I did that now