KO, the bcachefs dev, did things in the kernel in a way that caused quite a bit drama. But with time and after some push back, KO now has adapted to the development process (and no drama since then).

Since it’s also fully experimental, it’s more harmful than beneficial to keep it in the kernel imo.

Its experimental but its an fs, it doesn’t affect anyone who doesn’t want to use it. Many drivers are also mainlined in an experimental state and then slowly worked upstream (for e.g. the new nova nvidia gpus driver).

why? Its not going to affect you if you dont use it.

The MAU of lemmy.world is ~18,600 which is a bit greater than the combined MAU of the next 7 instances (a big help here is lemm.ee which has ~7000 MAU). This is a really healthy spread of users and it means we don’t lose lemmy if the biggest instance goes down.

Compare that to Mastodon, where mastodon.social has more MAU (~372,000) than the combined MAU of the next 30 instances at least (I gave up counting). Thats not healthy for the ecosystem. Though tbf the total MAU of mastodon is ~899,000 so without mastodon.social they will still have ~527,000 but it will be very spread out.

Yeah fedora does it even for small updates, not just kernel updates. But only if you update through the store.

We really should be pushing for fully open source stack (firmware, os) in all iot devices. They are not very complicated so this should be entirely possible. Probably will need a EU law though.