The death of Bram Moolenaar, Vim founder and benevolent dictator for life (BDFL), in 2023 sent a shock through the community, and raised concern about the future of the project. At VimConf 2024 in November, current Vim maintainer Christian Brabandt delivered a keynote on “the new Vim project" that detailed how the community has reorganized itself to continue maintaining Vim and what the future looks like.
If you have a Facebook, X or Amazon account, I hope you can find it in your heart to switch to one of their competitors. It’s worth a try.
For Xitter, BlueSky is drop-in replacement that’s superior in most respects. I’m not aware of any equivants for Facebook or Amazon.
I went with just not using it, has been amazing :)
Good for you, but I like being invited to parties.
I guess I’m just cool enough I get invited regardless? Or I find out about events in other ways. I’m fine to miss a thing here or there because I don’t give my data to Zuck tho.
Edit: Also glad I’m not on there anymore considering the whole LGBT stuff that’s happened this week.