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   Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 15:52:17 JST Drew DeVault

   "[Drew] manipulates facts to fit his argument"
   "[Drew] calls a project more popular than his, a dark web underground who-even-knows-this"

   Fact check

   https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages?query=hyprland

   https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages?query=sway

   I last committed anything meaningful to to sway or wlroots in 2020 and I officially handed off maintenance, so it's hardly "my project" either.

   Finally, I didn't actually call this project a "dark web underground" whatever, I was referencing this:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_dark_web

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 15:52:59 JST Drew DeVault

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     Oh, and I looked up wlroots and it's at 25%

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 15:53:43 JST Drew DeVault

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     Since there is some confusion about this, I never surmised that Hyprland was some kind of obscure "dark web" project. Instead I compared the discourse around Hyprland (and connections to it via Brodie, Lunduke, etc)[0] to the "Intellectual dark web" concept, which I cited in a follow up to clarify:

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_dark_web

     Happy to debate the applicability of this comparison but not really to debate something I didn't say re: "dark web"

     [0]: https://fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/112841303770968300

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 15:53:44 JST Drew DeVault

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     "sway has been around for 4x longer", "Hyprland's growing faster"

     Does not support the argument that Hyprland is more popular than Sway

     "many people have sway installed and dont use it, the longer it's there the more there are"

     No evidence to support or quantify this assumption

     "opt-in arch pkg-stats"

     Same bias applies to the Hyprland stats and balances out

     "8% is not 'dark web'"

     Still misinterpreting my comment on the "intellectual dark web"

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_dark_web

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 15:53:44 JST Drew DeVault

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     I agree that we should not misgender anyone, including those we disagree with; please desist and/or edit replies which did so.

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     Daniel Woodworth (dascwo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 15:56:45 JST Daniel Woodworth

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     @drewdevault There has to be a rule somewhere that people aren't allowed to claim their thing is "growing faster" without getting linked to https://xkcd.com/1102/

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 15:57:22 JST Drew DeVault

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     • Brodie Robertson

     @BrodieOnLinux this is literally your mastodon heading image right now

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     Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@linuxrocks.online)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 15:57:23 JST Brodie Robertson

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     @drewdevault I just make Linux videos on topics I want to talk about, I'm not in any weird internet club