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I suspect it might not even be anything like that and just be that the BSD maintainers don’t want to rely on any GPL code for anything, even if it’s optional.

I haven’t replied because I don’t know the precise details of why they can’t but Linux could, so was hoping someone else would answer, but it’s been a whole day, so I guess we’re both left not knowing.

Because, as the comment you’re replying to says, if they include any GPL code, the whole combined work has to be licensed as GPL, and the BSD operating systems don’t want to be GPL.

It’s not really gaming the algorithm. There’s no karma here, no one buying high-karma accounts for advertising, and no one chasing attention when the maximum attention a Lemmy post gets isn’t very much because there aren’t very many users, so there’s no point trying to artificially boost engagement. People are just posting things when they’re online and not posting things when they’re offline, and there are few enough users that it doesn’t take many to create a pattern, and it sounds like you just happen to check at a similar cadence to a few anime fans, so keep seeing things right after they’ve browsed and upvoted what they like. I just checked the All Communities Hot feed on lemmy.world with no communities blocked, and only see one anime-related post in the first five pages, so they’re clearly not constantly at the top. Considering the demographics that would typically use Lemmy, that’s a really low number.

The default sort prioritises posts from within the last few minutes above posts that are hours old with far more votes. If one anime fan posts a handful of things right when another checks their feed, there’ll be anime posts at the top for half an hour or so, as they’ve got the most votes per minute.

The goal isn’t to keep your data, it’s to make it look like you gave the police your real code and just didn’t have anything interesting on your phone.

Once you’re already on the watchlist, there’s nothing more to lose by further identifying yourself as an enemy of the state.

Polling puts support for continued military action in Gaza as really high, so it’s not like the people who want Netanyahu arrested for domestic crimes universally are aware of and want him punished for his warcrimes. There’s an argument that the population will become more aware that what the IDF is doing is bad with a less corrupt and more democratic government that permits more critical press, and therefore deem it unjustifiable and withdraw support, but it’s not like everyone instantly changes their mind the moment propaganda is withdrawn.