Interesting, it was a variation of embrace, extend, extinguish, without the extend part.

In a way, I think it happened to the entire internet. Look at browsers today, web development (that one might be controversial, but I think big techs somewhat forced bloated frameworks to be the standard way to create websites), video streaming, etc.

I don't remember darth vader lying about data

Like this?

Why do I get a bad feeling about it? I hope wikipedia remains the same after that.

Besides... they ask so desperately for donations, so it makes me wonder if the project can be sustainable.

Maybe I'm overthinking stuff, let's see how it goes.

Can we help the project?

I second this. The subs I'm subscribed to are losing a lot of quality, and human interaction is degrading. Doesn't feel like a comfortable place anymore.

It's all about balance. A few sign posts help people not to get lost, but too much sign posts would make people become disoriented.

As someone from a developing country, I still prefer most of my software from standard packages, in order to take less space.

And before someone comes to tell about how cheap storage is nowadays, it can be cheap for you, but it isn't for me and for a lot of other people.

Thank you for your comment. What a coincidence that you mentioned openstreetmap, because adding data became like a hobby to me. While it's some form of contribution, I wanted to go deeper into some project, be a developer.

It's hard to explain, but it's mostly the social aspect of it that I struggle with.

Yacy has been there for a long time, before the concept of fediverse, and before our increased concerns about privacy.

Such a nice project, but too bad it never gathered a strong userbase.

Indeed. My university used to have a lot of issued dues to old automation software that needed windows xp, so they could never upgrade the computers in the lab.

Other person reporting here.

One of the nice things about Debian is that we don't need to rush an upgrade, because our previous versions will still get security upgrades for a long time. Love it.

Exactly. There are possibly leaked data that could expose users in there.

Most software I use feel too big for a starting point. I tried solving bugs for a smaller project, but my pr took literally 4 years to be approved. In others, I tried to look into some issue, but they were fixed before I finished my attempt.

It all turned into some sort of barrier to get started.

When was the last reddit exodus? where did people move to?

Do you know if ecosia is still using google under the hoods?

What's preventing GPT-based bots to earn karma by writing real-looking comments?

The future of the internet really seems like a dark one...