Post by @Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems

2026-09-22 19:42 UTC

@daemonspudguy @nelson@wetdry.world Text editor gets slopified: billions of forks Password manager gets slopified: several forks Some web framework gets slopified: fork Foundational low-level library gets slopified: crickets Kernel gets slopified: "THIS SUCKS" Which shows you where most of the core competency is in the FOSS world tbh.

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@nelson@wetdry.world 2026-09-22 19:44

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems @daemonspudguy to be fair, i haven't seen any of these forks actually get proper support, a lot of this technology is still too big to be mantained by just a couple of nerds, linux requires the combined resources and manpower of several huge multi-billion-dollar companies. i don't see people forking freebsd or linux, other than some small scale projects. it isn't really just the fact that this tech is too hard or too simple as much as it is just too big, zed is on a similar problem right now where zedless and gram are pretty much tiny hobby projects with little to no resources, people working for free essentially.

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@daemonspudguy@app.wafrn.net 2026-09-22 19:43

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems @nelson@wetdry.world This is true under normal circumstances tbf. Low-level systems programming is rather hard and if something goes wrong it tends to go catastrophically wrong.

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