@Hicsumus @paco The podcasters include @Casey of Platformer fame, and also @kevin who's the NY Times tech reporter.

So very prominent and respected tech journalists.

They've written a lot about the problems with social media over the years.

So as an experiment, they decided to try setting up their own social network using Mastodon, and encouraged their listeners to join.

So far, around 2000 listeners have signed up.

And I personally hope it works

#theforkiverse

@vkc Ugh! I'm really sick of that 2010s Buzzfeed rage-bait article style.

If folks like the design choices Gnome makes, then great. Use Gnome!

If people don't like Gnome, then it's not like there isn't a range of mature alternatives out there like Cinnamon, MATE, and XFCE.

Heck, you can have a great desktop experience using the KDE apps and Plasma these days if you don't like Gnome's decisions.

And is Gnome's design choices really the worst thing going on in the world right now? Really?!

Like, is it even in the top 1000 worst things happening right now?