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.

  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexus
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    All over the globe, much like systemd.

    Also like systemd, their operation is not determined by Colorado, California, and Brazil.

    And before anyone gives me the “hurt durr other states have it proposed” - other states have had all kinds of stupid laws that make it absolutely nowhere.

    And no, they wouldn’t have to “fire” anyone from CA, CO, or Brazil. Because it has fuck all to do with systemd in the first place.

    systemd is not an operating system. The laws do not have any application to systemd. Including it in systemd as a field, as specifically stated for these three jurisdictions is idiotic in so many ways.

    Edit: Also, just to be clear - this PR did not come from maintainers. It came from one person who submitted multiple PRs for age verification across multiple projects.

    It was merged by a maintainer though, which is why they deserve criticism.