Thank you, very informative thread. I’m not accustomed to exploring the modlog, but this clears up some frustration. I’m grateful for the community having mods that care and can understand some issues just becoming to prevalent.

But what if the concept itself is the subject? Context: during someone’s quest for a good OS keyboard, the FUTO one was falsely (or probably just naively) presented as an alternative. That comment thread was moderated to bits, but another user was interested enough to start a topic “Thoughts on FUTO keyboard?” which to me suggests they want to learn more about the matter and why it might or might not be OSI compliant. I dove into all mentioned articles in that thread to learn why and lo and behold the entire post was removed before I could thank the useful comment(er)s there. By removing that, other users can’t benefit from that discussion if they weren’t quick enough.

That was my first interaction, but I’ve noticed it for other topics as well.

That would be my last resort, indeed. I just want to try open discussion first.

Whoa, I found the discussion rather insightful 😕

Removed by mod

Since when is allowing commercial derivative work essential for it to be called open source?

Good for them. It’s an organisation’s free choice to pick the platforms they post and interact on, if any. Their presence is a service in itself while there are plenty of other ways to follow or reach them if needed.

So far scaled seems nice to get the little ones higher up. AFAIK you can’t pre-make custom lists as some communities are perhaps more fun if you go for newest (comments) but then the small ones might get lost in the chaos.

Ideally, I would set scaled top 6-hours or something?

A bit like CryptPad?

Perhaps some automated conversion with a warning when posting that it does this?

Sync seems pretty, but has a privacy policy that harvests your user data for ads.

The Eindhoven University of Technology?

I love building my own uBlue image. Tinkering is done in toolbox containers, definite changes are baked into the image. Completely custom (to me) and when you get it right it will just work anywhere. If I would brick my PC/storage I can just boot up another and restore my (back-upped) home dir with very little effort.