- cross-posted to:
- linux@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- linux@programming.dev
Per the very first reply on their thread discussing it in their forums, which I linked directly to for the post title:
We’ll NEVER require any verification or identification from the user.
However, what’s gonna happen should the attempts to age-gate the XDG portal screw over alt-init distros like Artix too? My guess is maybe they start blocking regions which force age gating like Arch Linux 32 is doing.


Hot takes and creative fiction is more entertaining than boring reality and that behavior is enforced by social media systems (like likes). It isn’t fun to read ‘they passed a law that’s largely symbolic’ as ‘The end of the Internet is upon us’.
Outrage and self-righteousness feel good and appearing cynical is a cheap way to look intelligent.
Alternatively, something like half of social media traffic was shown to be bot-sourced and a goal of adversarial influence campaigns is often to simply stir up conflict so I keep my sanity by believing that a good portion of them are not actual human people, just evil LLMs trying to piss everyone off (and a lot of the rest are simply people who’ve been fooled by the false consensus into aping those same bot tactics and/or literal children)
Some topics, like discussions around AI, are so heavily toxic that I find it hard to believe that it isn’t being signal boosted in some way.