i think their guess is right on the money

My best guess (and to be clear, this is a guess): Google decided they could no longer effectively identify and swat away SEO slop, and figured that just massively nerfing brand new domains was their next best option.

this makes a lot of sense if you’ve tried searching for literally anything nowadays – most of the results are generated AI slop for the specific keywords you’ve searched for – can only imagine the nightmare if you could do this for a whole domain subtree – such a shame that because of slop actually useful wikis have to suffer – abs atrocious

https://twitter.now/

vibe coded slop asking for $20 bucks to sign up… i think I’m okay

tbf as the other commenter pointed out FreeBSD might introduce slop at any point even if they’re holding off for now so I wouldn’t put my eggs in that basket

also steam definitely uses AI for development (so does Blender as well as KDE stuff like Krita) so you really should be avoiding them anyways

fortunately we’re blessed to exist at the same time as 9front that’s actually taken a stance on being free of slop <3

for art things paint(1) is an amazing drawing tool and if you’re into gaming there’s timeless classics like pokemon, doom and wipeout

also the OS is still being actively developed by very passionate people that truly care about software so supporting one of the last bastions of hope against clankers just makes you feel giggly and good ^°^

FreeBSD?