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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):

Hopefully the energy of this reaction won't be scattered among too many alternatives, although some amount of scattering is always good.

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[–] RedWedding@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, its not like there is a big push by many governments around the world, for more surveillance and therefore less privacy, right?

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When those governments find it I'm 150 years old I wonder what they're going to do

[–] RedWedding@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, you really missed my point by saying that. This law on its own is not dangerous, because you can lie.

They will clearly stop it there, I mean its for the safety of our children after all.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 6 hours ago

Oh wait... are you saying that seriously?

I've been saying that kind of thing satirically, sarcastically.

... I guess I need go back and put "/s" on a lot of my posts. I didn't think anyone would take or say such things seriously. ... You're not serious, are you??

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 day ago

No I didn't miss your point. I was intentionally stating that what you're worried about is not what is currently happening.

Slippery slope, the world's always ending, blah blah blah