Forgejo is implementing federation via forgefed making an account until then is not that hard when you use a password manager also you can log in with your preferred OpenID provider.
Removing of all colorful third-party app icons from the Breeze icon theme. This was done for not wanting to override the branding of third-party apps as well as lacking the resources to maintain all of these third-party icons where their branding may change over time. This affects many apps such as for LibreOffice, AnyDesk, Audacity, Atom, GIMP, FileZIlla, Emacs, Keepass, MATLAB, Mixxx, Scribus, Sublime, Diaspora, and many others
"It is not expected that Vulkan will become the default backend in Blender 5.0. The reason is that OpenGL drivers are able to offload GPU memory to CPU RAM. Vulkan being a low level API doesn’t. Reports have been coming in that more users face this limitation and that we need to solve it. There are multiple ways how to solve it and with their own draw-backs. We want to experiment upcoming week with sparse memory. According to the Vulkan specs it allows to replace the GPU memory behind a handle (image or buffer) using a queue command. When this happens we could split the render graph and perform the uploading/synchronization that are needed."
I haven't seen activity declining, but I have seen good quality posts declining I have been seeing more low quality posts recently