Post #1745017

2026-03-24 19:45 UTC

I'm sorry you feel this way, but again you are barking up the wrong tree as we can't do anything about it... except what you can do too: protest to the people who want to impose this upon us. Bringing this issue up here or on Discuss is pointless: We know, we are aware, we are against it, we don't want it, we realise there are ulterior motives from corrupt actors, and we will do what we can to oppose them. But this, posting to Discuss, complaining about KDE being indifferent here (which it isn't) is probably the most unproductive thing you could do. You are tying up resources of volunteers who are already on your side. Like you say organising a protest, writing to the powers-that-be, educating your local/state/national representative, all these thing help. But this is just consuming volunteers' time up in moderating a potential flamewar on a topic that we (and I would argue everybody else here) already knows about.

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@pglpm@lemmy.ca 2026-03-24 19:59

I don't think it's unproductive at all. Positive changes and resistance to negative changes are caused by many, extremely different and complex factors, one of which is voiced discontent at all levels. It's a chain of pressures. Some elements press on other elements which are not the final target, but this pressure makes them in turn exert even more pressure closer to the target. Edit: take for instance the [Montgomery bus boycott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott) – was the bus company responsible for the law? shouldn't the black people have done the boycott then? Without such internal pressures, positive changes may fail. History shows examples over and over (a good read is the historian Barzun's [*From Dawn to Decadence*](https://ia600208.us.archive.org/31/items/DecadenceOfIntellectualLife/DawnAndDecadence.pdf)). I'm sure that if it wasn't me posting stuff like this, it'd be someone else, and maybe sharing a much less polite post. Also, I think that this kind of moderation ends up giving a very false picture on the forums, as if everyone discussing there doesn't really mind about the topic. I think developers *can* do something about it. They don't *want* to, maybe for obvious reasons, and I respect their choice. But there is a choice.

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