Following in the footsteps of Hashicorp, Hudson, etc. Zed has chosen to cash in the good will of its now substantial user base and start going to full corporate enshittification. Among other things like minimum age nonsense, they have also added binding mandatory opt-OUT arbitration.

I find such agreements very troubling, because it gives up public funded dispute resolution for private which nearly unanimously benefits larger entities, it lowers transparency to near zero, and eliminates the abilities to act as a class and to appeal. But I worry most will just accept it, as is the norm.

You can however opt out by emailing arbitration-opt-out@zed.dev with full legal name, the email address associated with your account, and a statement that you want to opt out.

I'll just consider my days of advocating for Zed as an interesting new editor over and go back to Neovim bliss.

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[–] theherk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It also matters if you value organizations changing terms after attracting a community and changing to non-transparent solutions while claiming to be “open”. It matters if your values are different.

But you’re right too. If not logging in, your liability is probably not changing.

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I do agree with that overall principle. I am not a fan of the arbitration clause.

But it's an open source project, I'm not paying them apart from donations. And their mainly GPL+AGPL+Apache. So I'm not worried, id be more concerned of they moved to a more permissive license. And you can run your own instance of their backend server for realtime collaboration.

All things considered I am not too concerned right now, but I will be watching for more signs of problematic behavior.