If I’m not mistaken, those things aren’t just search engines, they are gif hosting platforms. So as long as someone doesn’t chip in to shoulder the server costs, just making a foss search function isn’t exactly gonna get you very far.

I think Mastodon deserves a special mention, simply because I feel it has a comparably big userbase compared to most alternative networks and it’s a well working twitter alternative with some genuine improvements over the “original” thing.

Seems pretty cool, but not what I would have expected from the term “community wealth sharing platform”.

Because to claim that real world systems come even close to being a meritocracy is an illusion. You can’t fix systemic inequalities and discrimination without, well, addressing them.

This could bring an influx of new users to Linux, which would be a boost for the open source operating system, though it’s likely that any distro the Chinese government uses would be heavily modified and restricted.

On paper, this could be good news for Linux. However, any OS the Chinese government uses will likely be heavily regulated and censored, which is contrary to what the Linux and open source communities stand for.

Seems like the tangible benefits for the linux and open source community expected from that might be somewhat limited. Maybe some gov workers will switch to linux privately and maybe the gov might end up funding some projects, but they probably won’t contribute to the open source community directly.

I think gatekeeping like yours hurts the community significantly more.

How are you gonna stop rightwingers from owning a fricken computer?

Yeah, adoption of Peertube is just so low that all instances that federate liberally will have this nonsense displayed prominently because it gets comparably many views. That those instances are also listed on joinpeertube.org is unfortunate, but at least the federated nature of Peertube means that assuming the maintainers of joinpeertube are aware of the issue and refuse to do something about it, people can still make an effort to build up an alternative launching point for people looking for instances.