You should read Thunderbird donation statement.

They got 6 million USD of donation back in 2022.

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving-our-2022-financial-report/

Oh, being annoying to casual user makes them anti to whatever we promote.

The keyword is being moderate and helpful. Not forceful or annoying.

The reality is GaaS is exteremely hard to success. Every one success GaaS, there are probably 20 or 50 failed one that we even never heard.

Most of actively maintained extension are from Keiyoushi, which is open source and community maintained.

It has 1300+ extension from various sites and platform across diverse languages.

As much as I love Linux for mobile idea, it doesn’t have a lot of apps that people rely, like banking or government related stuff.

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Misskey, which is Japanese-made ActivityPub-enabled social media software, has option to enable ads natively for instance admin.

In most cases, the ads are just non-tracking community ads, like promoting YouTube channel, indie animation, pop-up cafe event, or server hosting service. Usually the ads are matched to instance theme.

People realize that running instances needs money and letting the instance admin to make living from it is acceptable. Having monthly patron oftentimes not enough.

This is different case and country. There are plenty of dead fedi instance from Southeast Asia because the donation itself is not enough as the culture of donation is not the same as Western countries. Most people will just simply use free social media and thinking ads are good tradeoff.

It’s just your average cultural clash.

Most people on internet are accustomed with English naming culture. Meanwhile when people from non-Western (mostly US) making name that seems cool in their culture, it often lead to cultural clash. This also applies to symbol, gesture, etc.

You would be surprised that numbers of FOSS project from East Asia not having updated information/license/documentation in English.

Especially Japanese one, it’s one of the hardest language that even if people had a middle level certification like JLPT N3, they might still not be able to translate formal document properly.

On other hand, FOSS project from Southeast Asia or South Asia always keeps their English documentation/license/info up to date.

That’s Western fediverse.

Fediverse instance in Asia often run ads or other kind of monetisation. Like the second biggest instance.

Unfortunately Warmux is now a dead project, with official site taken over by unrelated company and only unofficial Flathub distribution exist.

Even Windows built and other OS is gone.

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Asian here and rice eater here.

Language doesn’t work in absolute way, it could change its meaning all the time.

It’s better to regain is neutral meaning instead of letting the racist weaponize neutral word.

Also, this mindset is also Western centric, go to Asia and people in Linux and car community simply use the word without any negative connotation.

Edit: By doing this, you’re no different from imperial government who tries to make one standard of morality, which in fact further hurts Asian living in Asia. And as Indonesian, I’m hurt with your statement. Let me regain the neutral meaning. Don’t speak for us.