go against their spirit

I think this is more of a failure of the license itself. It's not a good look to allow something explicitly and then go "no not like that!"

For professionals used to Photoshop, yes it is that bad. People want what's familiar because they're used to it and they're busy or lazy. They don't want to learn something new.

If GIMP wanted to increase their userbase by a million overnight, they would make it look more like Photoshop.

The problem is they and many current users are huge FOSS zealots and see this kind of thing akin to selling your soul to the devil.

Eh.. I understand exactly where they're coming from. If you're trying to make money with a product then this is something that can happen. You can argue all day long that it's no longer technically "open source", but IMO for 99% of usecases (anything that's not a Confluence integration), it still is... even still non-copyleft.

Of course there will still be people that argue open source is antithetical to capitalism in general... but not everyone agrees with you.

except gaia is one of the largest forums on earth.

they have more subscribers than Apple TV+

RASENGAN

it was funny even before the last line though

I just don't see the point. I can't think of any good reason to have one personally.

I would love to be proven wrong though.

Except there were scientific studies done at the time that "proved" it was safe, even as a cigarette filter. Can't really blame people for trusting that IMO.

Now I wonder what was actually so flawed about those studies.

99% of browsers and their forks also expose your real OS via javascript (navigator.platform), even on Tor Browser. Some in the privacy community say this information is actually worthless (it could be lying), but I don't know for sure.

xpra can do this

Not everyone wants to live in the terminal. I would argue most people don't.

Lorne is a dick, and Al is too smart for him. Playing by SNL's rules and dealing with their own writers would not end well.

you might need a time machine for that

I think if Rust people want C and C++ devs to switch over, there needs to be a lot more documentation that's easy to follow on how exactly to do that. For example with Swift there's an amazing tutorial called Swift for C++ Practitioners that step-by-step goes over all the equivalent functionality and how to translate existing concepts over from one language to the other. I think Swift at least has the edge there with familiarity because the syntax physically looks closer to C-like languages, so when that's not the case, even more hand-holding is going to be necessary IMO.

you'll still get filtered by those mods on other instances and the amount of visibility your comment has will go down. lemmy has already gotten fragmentation problems like this for similar reasons IMO

Yes, they actually CAN know those things.

I think eventually if a federated system (or particular server) gets too popular they will just defederate from everyone else and perpetuate the same problem all over again

that is the only current accepted alternative to paying for website access, yes

if you have better ideas though, we'd all love to hear them

very interesting. I'm sure someone will be along to tell me why I shouldn't care.

You might be right, but I don't think that's a problem they're going to solve all on their own, meanwhile the rest of users will suffer.