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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[–] 1 point 7 months ago (9 children)

why not? in multi user environments the user could be in any number of office locations… tracking that information is useful

just because it’s not useful for you doesn’t mean it’s not useful to anyone

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (8 children)

    Race, gender, sexual preference, these are all useful to someone and yet should not be data collected. Name, sure. Birth date, no. I’m fine with an Adult Boolean.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    then perhaps you should have made the PR rather than completely overreacting about someone else’s implementation of an entirely optional, unverified text field

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (6 children)

    I don’t see you getting involved.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (5 children)

    i’m fine with the change. why would i get involved when im involved with other FOSS efforts and much prefer systemd to every other option

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    like i have nothing to prove to you and keep this identity separate to work adjacent activities so im not listing them :)

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