· by iinavpov.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy ·6h ago · view on bsky.app ↗

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At some point #KDE said that's the name of the community. The desktop is plasma. I think that was the sign of a level of maturity I did not understand at the time: large open source projects are communities first, software second. Now we're seeing many key, beloved, *niche, finished* Free […]

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Nemo · 0 · 6h ago

Nearly every time, these are projects that either were finished, or vaguely toxic in the "it will cater to my very narrow prejudice of what's right". Think weird window managers. Bizarre editors. Which did attract followings, but very few developers, because going beyond the idiosyncrasies was […]