The latest changes implemented in the Systemd repo, related to or prompted by age-verification laws, have made many people unhappy (I suppose links about this aren’t necessary). This has led to a surge in Systemd forks during the last days (“surge” because there have always been plenty of forks). Here are some forks that explicitly mention those changes as their reason for forking (rough time ordering taken from the fork page):

Hopefully the energy of this reaction won’t be scattered among too many alternatives, although some amount of scattering is always good.

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      22 hours ago

      It’s used for both in English.

      So retard can mean “to slow something down” or it can mean “a mentally deficient person”

      The second usage is considered offensive and for that reason it’s not normally used in speech except for scientific descriptions of something slowing down.

      Im Deutschen: Es wird im Englischen für beides verwendet.

      „Retard“ kann also „etwas verlangsamen“ oder „eine geistig behinderte Person“ bedeuten.

      Die zweite Bedeutung gilt als beleidigend und wird daher im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch normalerweise nicht verwendet, außer in wissenschaftlichen Beschreibungen von Verlangsamungen.