Depends on your definition of free speech.

If that’s “you can post literally anything and there is no moderation”, then likely none.

Cause it would attract pedophiles sharing child sexual abuse material, drug traders and Nazis making lists of targets.
Why should anyone pay upkeep to host that? No advertiser will go near it, and it’s only a matter of time before the cops take it down and arrest people.

If it’s “post anything that isn’t blatantly illegal everywhere”, then try 8kun. But unmoderated platforms do not attract rational discourse:
Warning: Screenshot includes hate speech

Typical Capitalism, even monetizing homelessness.

X isn’t about free speech:

https://www.politico.eu/article/musks-x-suspends-opposition-accounts-turkey-protest-civil-unrest-erdogan-imamoglu-istanbul-mayor/

Someone please explain if this is good or evil, I’m not smart enough for newance.

FEED ME, SEYMORE!

Also, the quickest way to get new software versions, in most cases.

I use its image search to study human anatomy.

This is not an isolated problem in the FOSS community

Correct. It isn’t a problem at all for FOSS.
Still baffles me how many don’t understand that FOSS doesn’t follow capitalist market logic.

People make a thing in their free time and give it away for free.
Then other people tell them:
“What you’re making is wrong. You should change it. Then more people would be willing to use the thing you’re giving away for free.”

They’ve been bitching about that since the beginning.
Fun fact: The first public testing version of GIMP was released in November 1995
In October 1995, the movie Pulp Fiction was released, featuring a character named “The Gimp”.
It’s just a typical UNIX-y backronym with a pop-culture reference.

When GIMP 2.0 was released, I was a teenager.
Now my daughter is a teenager.

Surely, if nobody is using the software, then there’s no incentive to keep making it.

Making a tool you or the company you work for need yourself, fun, learning, community, doing good, showing off, status, being remembered, (even if it’s just in a circle of 10 people)…

Marketing generates interest. Interest gets users. Users (hopefully) get donations and/or contributions to the project.

Irrelevant for the vast majority of open source projects, which will never be financially profitable.

why not be clear and avoid wasting people’s time as they try to figure out what exactly a project is about?

Maybe because the volunteers working on the project in their free time are programmers, not marketers or good communicators?
Also, they aren’t wasting anybody’s time by creating useful software and giving it away for free.

I realize I’m being confrontational towards you, but this mindset of demanding things from people who literally give away free stuff with no strings attached rubs me the wrong way, every single time. And this mindset is much too prevalent, even to the point of harassing, insulting and threatening open source devs for choices they make in their projects.

The devs owe you nothing. If you don’t like what they do, simply don’t use it.
There are other options out there, but they may come with a $23/month price tag.

Open Source software is not a product that needs marketing.
The devs making Gimp gain literally nothing from you downloading and using it.
Stop applying capitalist logic to one of the few aspects of life that haven’t been monetized yet.

They are the opposite of “set it and forget it”.
Probably the most maintenance-heavy distros out there.
They’re like Arch, if the Arch maintainers didn’t care about keeping the system working.

It’s supposed to be Richmark Shuttleman

lol, just checked. ~/Documents doesn’t even exist on my machine.

I hope they make it in time for Debian 13 to include it.

Just a heads-up: Synaptic doesn’t come preinstalled on Debian or Ubuntu anymore.
It’s 25 years old software, and tends to behave weirdly when you try to uninstall multiple packages.

I also know a great guy for that!
He’s not a surgeon as such, but he’ll do it for free if you source the anesthetics and let him keep half.

3.7%. This number in no way depends on the affected area, your age, pre-existing health conditions, or any other factors.
It’s always exactly 3.7%.

Glad I could help. Otherwise you might have had to contact a licensed healthcare professional.