So far so good though Shopify being a major sponsor makes me doubt their long term direction.

Wait till you find out about the internet and social media (including here).

Your proposal is equivalent to just letting bots completely control the internet. It kills it. We either want an internet or we don’t.

That hasn’t been true for a long time. Filtering bots has increasingly become more difficult, expensive, and sophisticated. Not to mention that there are still plenty of state sponsored bad actors using real people and hybrid approaches.

After a decade of watching the GIMP community and leadership refuse obvious UI changes insisting it’s just “different” as well insisting on a name we can’t deal with in schools I’m not convinced they’re even serious anymore. My new hope is for the Graphite project to get where it wants to be.

There’s a reason gimp forums are full of first time artists posting pony’s while every competitor open or not is trying new things. There is some new young devs adding amazing things to GIMP (finally), I hope they can steer this into better waters but I’m beyond sceptical.

Significantly better with real adjustment layers IMO. Gimp markets as a photo editor but almost all Linux photographers are using DarkTable at this point.

You think the current US would stop at Canada and Mexico?

Because BlueSky has designers and Mastodon is a nightmare for new users. Same reason a lot of “superior” open source apps never take off. Devs are rarely also good designers. Until we start caring about normal people it will stay that way.