RE: https://floss.social/@kde/117322549131682125 I signed and shared a petition that asked for KDE to stay “AI”-free. Somebody reported me to my own instance over it, and I was puzzled as to why, as it seemed innocuous enough. Well I think I found why: it’s a term used in a post on the subject, shared by the official KDE account. “19. Someone else outside of KDE set up https://kdeforpeople.com in an attempt to brigade (edit: I have been convinced that this was too strong a word to use here) pressure KDE into banning LLMs. 20. A bunch of people signed onto it, almost none of whom are known KDE contributors (I see one person I know in there).” Well, saying I am disappointed would be putting it lightly. Those nefarious “people outside of KDE”, asking the project to consider banning LLM? There is a name for it: we are called “users”. But apparently you are not allowed a voice if you are not part of the inner circle. Promoting KDE and reporting the occasional bug is not enough. We can’t comment on https://invent.kde.org/ as it is for devs only, but it seems like we are not supposed to be vocal about our concerns on a purpose made website either. What are we supposed to do then? Just stay silent, like good consumers? Are we not part of the community too? I guess I was just stupid to think that, in a free software project that has long claimed to be community-driven, non-developers were allowed to have opinions about the tools they use and their social impact. #KDE