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    [–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 5 days ago

    Highlighting this as another example of the continuous creep towards end goal while explaining the increasing encroachment is incredibly useful for getting more eyes on the bigger picture.

    Hmmm.... maybe you're right. I will follow the comments more closely to see what part of them talks about fighting the actual legislation and what part just talks about abandoning systemd. My sensation so far was that people were focusing almost exclusively on forking the project and creating pointless alternative distros but maybe it was just my bias.

    I agree that if talking about systemd would serve to inform people about the legislation and abolish it (or prevent the next one) it would be actually useful. Recently we've seen couple of fairly successful actions like complaining about Android's developer verification to EU, complaining about planned backdoors in E2E encryption in EU or writing to EU about open source in general. All this was done before changes were actually enacted and in reaction to concrete proposals, not as weird attacks on unrelated projects after the law was already passed and complaining about some general and gradual "slippery slope" style attacks on privacy. But maybe the other tactic will also work. I guess we'll see.