Actually, I guess they're carefully probing to find out exactly what level of freedom they can give their users before they start losing people to the real fediverse. As soon as they find it they'll make things just slightly worse than that.
kbal
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I wonder which word would fit better than "assisted" there if we knew all the details. Bribed, or blackmailed?
it's running as a daemon specifically so you can easily disable it
It occurs to me that even if I were a KDE user, I probably wouldn't see it. I'm not a DE developer, so I'd be getting the packages through Debian, and the people who package things for Debian tend to remove such prominent features that for the users are all cost and no benefit.
I suspect that none of the people who are "complaining" are doing so because it's some kind of personal inconvenience that they'd find intolerable. The only thing it does to make my day worse is to slightly cheapen the reputation of the KDE project, and by extension — since it is such a popular and highly visible project — that of free software in general.
According to another report:
Threads users can like the replies from other servers, but they can't yet reply to them, as the feature is still in beta and under development.
It's like they're trying to find out how slowly they can go while still convincing enough people that they're going to get there some day.
So the reason it makes me uneasy is that at the same time as I do want KDE to succeed, I do not want this tactic of begging for money in annoying little on-screen pop-ups to succeed. If it does, then perhaps it might spread to other free software projects. If all of the hundreds of them that go into a linux distribution start feeling free to make their demands it will be a real mess. As some old philosopher said: To judge the morality of an action, consider what would happen if everyone did it.
I remain an Xfce user. They also accept donations.
3min 30s, sample for context
If you keep watching for 10 minutes, it's an interesting discussion. Too bad they had to cut it short due to time.
Rust is a good language. There is no reason not to use it for userspace tools if you manage dependencies with sufficient care. As with most other currently fashionable languages they make it easy to not do that.