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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[–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

It's hard enough for maintainers and devs to fight ai and governments. If you wanna go against someone go against corpos and government not people doing their hobbies.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    Yes, time and effort would be infinitely better spent yelling at the local and national governments pushing for this to be implemented at the behest of meta. Than outrage of an optional text field.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    When has Foss been sued by governments? I can think of only a few examples, when the software was used to mix crypto.

    I don't see age verification being used to shut down Debian. They would just move to another country

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