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It looks like it's mostly engineered this for personal use, but as somebody currently underwhelmed by GitLab Wiki (/Gollum) for enterprise documentation, some of the features here would be very useful in that context.
I think media should function to encourage speech that balances social and individual utility. That is, speech that has important protection from powerful actors like the government and CEOs, but also that incentivizes true and useful information, in all the nuance that is necessary to actually understand the world. (Obviously entertainment is useful as well.)
But engaging lies are not a form of speech I value, and equating the current operation, or slightly-more-permissive version of it, of an overwhelmingly constructed forum (i.e. Twitter and it's retweet system) with "free" speech doesn't make much sense.
Edit: just to add some substance to my comment, I think more awareness of governance models and how power is allocated in the various domains of our lives is an absolutely critical piece of moving toward a more just, fulfilling, and less authoritarian world.
Also just a heads up, I find the demo gif to be unintelligibly fast.
- Right click menus didn't open in the right place when using a second monitor
- Basic applications like terminal and Dolphin often took more than a second to launch when they should have been instant
- I didn't really like Dolphin and wanted to go back to Nemo. There was a nice setting option to use a different file manager -- great! Except Nemo couldn't launch any programs for some reason. (Double click and then... nothing)
I searched for fixes for all these issues but got nowhere. I posted a bug report for the right click problem and somebody said it was a known problem with qt upstream that was therefore unfixable.
I think KDE has a ton of really cool design decisions and ideas and I love the customizability, but ultimately these bugs were too much and I went to Fedora Cinnamon.
With the much more limited plugin API (and simple html plug-in config pages) of the new browsers you'd think it would be easier to build and vet secure, cross platform add-ons.
I've been trying to use Nemo as my default file manager in Fedora KDE, but something broke where I can't actually launch anything from Nemo most of the time, so I'll probably go back to Dolphin.