The latest changes implemented in the Systemd repo, related to or prompted by age-verification laws, have made many people unhappy (I suppose links about this aren't necessary). This has led to a surge in Systemd forks during the last days ("surge" because there have always been plenty of forks). Here are some forks that explicitly mention those changes as their reason for forking (rough time ordering taken from the fork page):
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paramazo/systemd "The systemd System and Service Manager without age verification"
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ganitam/systemd "Systemd fork just before the Age Verification addition. Hoping more capable developers and maintainers do same.."
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GSYT-Productions/systemd-fork "The systemd System and Service Manager, without the stupid Age Verification"
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speedythesnail/unret arded-systemd "The systemd System and Service Manager, without the ret arded age-verification commits"
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ta13579/systemd "The systemd System and Service Manager WITHOUT THE FUCKING AGE CHECKS"
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r4shsec/systemd-no-age-verification "This is systemd but without the age verification made via pull request https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40978"
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Pingasmaster/fightthesystemd "Systemd without the nonsense: no age verification, no lighthouse built-in."
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Jeffrey-Sardina/system "Liberated systemd -- no surveillance. Ever."
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HaplessIdiot/systemd-saneagecheck "The systemd System and Service Manager with age verification bypass and polling rate options for said feature"
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Queer-Coded-LGBTQ/systemd-fuck-california "The systemd System and Service Manager, but without age bs added in."
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Codiak540/unshitted-systemd "A fork of systemd aiming to strip the Age verification. Sue me california."
Hopefully the energy of this reaction won't be scattered among too many alternatives, although some amount of scattering is always good.
systemd is not a distribution.
Its also not under Californian, Coloradan, or Brazilian jurisdiction.
systemd has merged a PR specifically for this use, so yes, they have implemented it.
Systemd is used by a lot of organizations and companies including those who want to operate in jurisdictions with the BS verification laws.
This doesn't impact anyone outside of those places
The field is added regardless of your country, therefore all users are impacted.
Why the fuck are you defending this shit so much?
You are all over the place pushing a complete fabrication about what has happened.
Where was your performative outrage when systemd added the full name data field in the same place? That is far more invasive information. Oh wait, they don't require that data field to contain a value either. It's almost like none of the technical details of the PR have anything to do with your stance on it and you're just big mad about something unrelated to systemd.
Youre making quite a few assumptions here, as well as ignoring context.
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