Hmm. Hate to be a downer, but that sounds like there needs to be a way for the service itself to block (ban) users and material, not for users to be able to bock other users. So I wouldn't be too optimistic about Apple's response....

Yes. I give it like a week before the FOSS community figures out how to bypass again. LOL.

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Damn. That is only a tiny little dip in the post/comment rate so far relative to the historical cycle. What, maybe 5%, assuming the vertical axis crosses at zero? Not terribly encouraging....

Suggest adding:

• The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution From Below - Peter Gelderloos
• Anarchy Works - Peter Gelderloos

It's a natural consequence of the "enshittification" cycle: The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok — Or how, exactly, platforms die

Should be "trivial", yes. The central OS components (e.g. systemd or whatever) shouldn't care about anything in your home directories. Only apps that store your user preferences, user DBs, etc. there should. So you might have some old hidden directories that won't be used anymore, some that hopefully different versions of the same apps if applicable can migrate the data from, etc. But it shouldn't affect the general functioning of your OS.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to first 1. backup the home directory, in case any app data migrations mess things up somehow, and 2. create a user with a home directory path that didn't exist in the old dir structure, in case you need to login as that user to fix things (e.g. let's say your profile or shell resource script has something that a new shell version in the new distro doesn't understand and that keeps you from logging in).

I've been doing development in many languages over the years, including C++, Java, Python, and Go. i do everything from the command line: vim for editing, the specific compiler and other language tools, makefiles, grep, etc. I am plenty productive, and I find the speed and generality of the tools I use make up for the features an IDE might have out-of-the-box and that I have to either take a couple more steps to accomplish or write some kind of script to help with. Basically "the command line is my IDE".

By default, your home directory will be /home/{username}, so your new user will not have any of the data from that other if they are named differently. It is possible to change the location of your home directory. Or to rename the subdirectory within /home at the filesystem level, of course. You could also go through your hidden directories and rename stuff so apps just don't find their old data directories, before you mount the directory on /home or before you start the apps to which the data belongs.